GUSI 2 Released (info for Squeak Sockets)

Bruce ONeel beoneel at mindspring.com
Mon Nov 8 15:07:06 UTC 1999


Hi,
  MacTCP is long gone.  Currently one writes modern MacOS networking
code in OpenTransport.  Soon, one will have to use BSD Sockets for MacOS X.
I assume that Carbon (the MacOS compat layer for MacOS X) will support
OpenTransport.

cheers

bruce

Henrik Gedenryd <Henrik.Gedenryd at lucs.lu.se> wrote:
> on 99-11-08 10.17, Craig Latta at Craig.Latta at NetJam.ORG wrote:
> 
> > Given 
> >> MacOS X's roots and some of the proclamations about dumping
> >> OpenTransport...
> > 
> > (I assume you meant "dumping MacTCP" there.)
> 
> Apple is abandoning OpenTransport for OS X, sticking with the present
> sockets implementation of NeXTStep/OpenStep (BSD?), arguing that it's not
> worth fixing something that  ain't broken. Still, OT is more modern so it's
> something of a step backward apparently (I'm not an expert on this).
> 
> Henrik





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