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mTCP and SwsVPkt (Announce)

posted by mbbrutman Homepage, Washington, USA, 01.06.2011, 15:04

> > I just tried SwsVPkt for the first time - I was unaware that it existed.
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> That's a bit surprising for me - because SoftWare Systems (SWS) also offers
> SWSSock, which is kind of a "competitor" of mTCP.

When I started coding a few years ago I had been exposed to NTCPDRV (Trumpet). Trumpet worked on my favorite machine (the IBM PCjr) but the applications were horribly dated and usually crashed. It was just plain frustrating. So I started writing my own code.

I wasn't aware of WATTCP at the time. If I had known about it at the time I might be writing WATTCP applications instead. I knew about NCSA Telnet but I resisted the urge to look at their code until I couldn't figure out why their FTP was faster than mine. (It turned out to be nothing to do with TCP protocol - it was larger buffer sizes for the DOS reads and writes.)

I keep becoming more and more aware of the DOS networking world as I go. In many respects, I am a newbie ...

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