On Fri 26 Mar, Stephen Travis Pope wrote:
> Craig Latta wrote:
> 
> > This release uses new networking primitives. The source for
> > them, and a new virtual machine, are included for the Win95 platform.
> 
> Could you maybe tell us what the estimated effort would be to port this to
other platf
> orms, or how the new primitives differ from the standard networking
primitives?
I thought I should point out that Craig is on vacation for a few days and so
answers to this important question might seem rather delayed.
I can say that he thought about other platforms whilst designing the code -
there's no way I would let him get away with not doing it, seeing that there is
only a cubicle 'wall' between us! Some of you know how opinionated I am about
portability.... the rest of you are lucky :-)
If works out as well as hoped, the prims should be easy to port to any platform
that can thread and be only a little harder for threadless platforms (like my
Acorn) to handle.

tim

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