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- From: PIRARD@VM1.ULG.AC.BE (Andre' PIRARD)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Windows Socket API
- Message-ID: <9208210943.aa03735@louie.udel.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 11:52:46 GMT
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- Organization: University of Liege (Belgium), SEGI (Computing Center)
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- On Thu, 11 Jun 1992 00:34:41 EDT Roger Fajman said:
- >The Windows Socket API sounds like a big step forward. I wish that
- >it dealt with DOS applications too, however.
-
- Indeed!!! [When will be the time we can sit the best app on the best stack].
- And my wish is that the DOS spec would consider DESQview multitasking.
- Specifically, add the necessary tasking primitives that plain DOS misses.
- And avoid up-calls and up-memory-references (or do them DV compatible).
- Many excellent programmers do not necessarily want to tackle Windows
- programming and there are many good programs (DOS or Unix) to adapt easily.
- Think of CUTCP now reassembling packets and getting more than 25%
- throughput on 9600 baud SLIP (this is just an example, sorry, Brad).
- And remember those non-GUI guys, and that DV's multitasking is
- well worth Windows'.
-
- I wish that people [universities?] dreaming to implement yet another stack
- would write the specs instead.
- Isn't this the way to stop the price gouging discussed on another thread?
-
- BTW1, I am unsure how the Win specs cover this: by all means, please also
- make the job of the network administrator [mine] easier by normalizing
- the access to usual PC setup parameters usually stored in a device driver
- file (local host name, user name, print server's address etc...).
-
- BTW2, incite ISO 8859 [aka ANSI in Windows' terms] programming; that's
- normally easy in Windows, as the line code is the same as Windows'
- internal code. A little more difficult for DOS apps that have to translate
- ISO 8859-1 to internal PC 850, as DOS doesn't seem to want to support ISO.
- Then, on the title page of the specs, you may add a European model of
- a socket *and* connect them...
-
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