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
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