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Have Sockets Run Their Course?

Posted by kdawson on from the as-it-was-in-the-beginning dept.

ChelleChelle writes "This article examines the limitations of the sockets API. The Internet and the networking world in general have changed in very significant ways since the sockets API was first developed in 1982, but the API has had the effect of narrowing the ways in which developers think about and write networked applications. This article discusses the history as well as the future of the sockets API, focusing on how 'high bandwidth, low latency, and multihoming are driving the development of new alternatives.'"

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  1. Re:Open Transport, Part II by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, I did hear it was a Xerox standard so it must have been copied from someone. I guess it could have been Apple.

  2. Re:Really... by knutkracker · · Score: 5, Funny

    or person getting a hard attack

    Viagra overdose?

  3. Re:Really... by lskovlund · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is not funny. It's called priapism and can result in impotence or worse.

  4. Re:Unix always had it by SQLGuru · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean, like pipes?

    Pipes for local communication and tubes for global communication. Seems like a winner.