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Whither Sockets?

The article discusses sockets API (application programming interface). The author examines the conditions present when sockets API was developed in 1982 at the University of California Berkeley, as well as exploring the manner in which such conditions informed the way networking code has been writte...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 6; pp. 51 - 56
Main Author: NEVILLE-NEIL, GEORGE V.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2009
Subjects:
Application program interfaces
Computer operating systems
Computer networks
Information technology
Application software
University of California, Berkeley
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses sockets API (application programming interface). The author examines the conditions present when sockets API was developed in 1982 at the University of California Berkeley, as well as exploring the manner in which such conditions informed the way networking code has been written. Additionally, the author describes developers' attempts to work around inherent limitations built into sockets API. Other topics include the future of sockets given the changes occurring in computer networks.