[Info-vax] Assembly languages

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-04-12, gah4 <gah4 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Monday, April 11, 2022 at 11:42:00 PM UTC-7, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>> For networking, it's all carried by IP datagrams in the end, which are 
>> blocks. TCP then implements a stream of bytes abstraction on top of that. 
>
> Yes, but TCP won't tell you were the boundaries were before the data
> went into the TCP stream, or where the IP boundaries were.

I wonder if there are any programmers still around that try to
treat TCP as if it was record based anyway. :-)

I know that in the old days, you sometimes came across reports of
people that assumed one TCP write in a program turned into exactly
one read in the receiving program...

Simon.

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