Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga 2500UX
Summary: Yes, sockets are doable.  Hopefully, no kernel hacks required.
Message-ID: <5824@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 22:17:08 GMT
References: <974@cc-krs.UUCP> <11280@swan.ulowell.edu> <37@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <600@boing.UUCP> <1481@neoucom.UUCP>
Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1481@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>I've tinkered with both BSD sockets and Sys V streams and
>would much rather write code using sockets.

I agree, the BSD sockets programming model is very nice.  But that's
really all it is, just a (somewhat TCP-oriented) programming interface
to a network service, and the same interface should mostly work with
streams.  The way that sockets will most likely appear on Amix is in
the form of am emulation library, allowing source code written for
sockets to use streams.

>Wallangong sells win/tcp for tcp/ip networking on the Unix PC.
>The kernel on the Unix PC is somewhere in between Sys V rel 0 and 1.

The Unix PC kernel is actually somewhere between rel 2 and rel 3, and
it has all sorts of hooks built into it for the Wollongong sockets.
Rather than build two network systems into the kernel, I think it is
much cleaner to implement one general network system which is capable
of providing all the services needed by the "sockets" interface.
-- 
					-=] Ford [=-

"The number of Unix installations	(In Real Life:  Mike Ditto)
has grown to 10, with more expected."	ford@kenobi.cts.com
- The Unix Programmer's Manual,		...!sdcsvax!crash!elgar!ford
  2nd Edition, June, 1972.		ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com