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- From towfiq@ftp.com Sun Mar 29 16:12:45 1992
- Sender: winsockapi-request@ftp.com
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 92 17:30:59 -0500
- From: towfiq@ftp.com (Mark Towfiq)
- To: winsockapi@ftp.com
- Subject: Interesting article
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- Taken from Windows Magazine, March 1992, p.20:
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- Microsoft Agrees with
- TCP/IP Windows
- Interface Standard
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- At a developers conference in January, Microsoft joined Digital
- Equipment Corp., FTP Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., the Wollongong
- Group, SunConnect, 3Com Corp., NetManage and JSB Corp.--among
- others--in supporting a standard interface for TCP/IP network
- communications between Windows programs.
- The new specification, called WinSock, conforms to the standard
- Berkeley Socket interface, which is widely used on UNIX systems. It
- is expected to provide substantially improved connectivity between
- Windows and TCP/IP enterprise networking systems such as the Internet
- (which connects defense installations, research facilities,
- government offices and universities throughout the United States.)
- This development is also expected to significantly improve
- operation of Windows-based software in a TCP/IP environment, which
- should accelerate the acceptance of Windows in situations where
- TCP/IP is the connectivity medium. In the past, each vendor of
- TCP/IP software for Windows has provided its own, proprietary socket
- interface--some implemented as DLLs, others as DOS TSRs. By
- providing a single standard, the new interface will significantly
- improve interoperability.
- "We worked with 20 other vendors on the WinSock API," said Cameron
- Myhrvold, Microsoft manager for developer relations. "It is similar
- to NetBIOS or named pipes. This way, developers can write an
- application once and they don't have to care which TCP/IP network
- they are running on. This is great for people who are doing TCP/IP
- under Windows."
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- Mark Towfiq, FTP Software, towfiq@FTP.COM, W:+1 617 224 6275, H:+1 617 488 2818
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