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From: timk@NCSA.UIUC.EDU (Tim Krauskopf)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Are any of the IP packages for PC adaptable to other systems?
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Date: 14 Nov 88 15:29:43 GMT
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The TCP/IP in NCSA Telnet is specifially designed for non-blocking,
non-preemptive, event driven systems.  This is perfect for DOS and the
Macintosh.  One side-effect is that the code does not require mutual
exclusion or context saving anywhere.

Lightweight, but not very UNIX adaptable.


Tim Krauskopf                timk@ncsa.uiuc.edu (ARPA)

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) 
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign