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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga 2500UX
Summary: No sockets?
Message-ID: <1481@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 15:46:37 GMT
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Gee, Amiga Unix without sockets would be sort of like a car without
wheels.  I've tinkered with both BSD sockets and Sys V streams and
would much rather write code using sockets.  Maybe it's just me,
left-brained and all...  Porting X would be easier if we had
sockets.

Sockets under Sys V are at least do-able.  I have a AT&T Unix PC in
addition to my Amiga.  Wallangong sells win/tcp for tcp/ip
networking on the Unix PC.  Win/tcp comes with sockets as an
installable driver for the kernel.  I don't have win/tcp on my
machine, but noticed the support for the sockets (and other
bsd-isms) while grepping through the /usr/include stuff.  The
kernel on the Unix PC is somewhere in between Sys V rel 0 and 1.
It seems reasonable to ask for sockets on the Amiga.  HP/UX (at
least some flavors of it) is Sys V and they have sockets.

--Bill
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