[Info-vax] Assembly languages

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-04-12 14:33, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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...

Lots of people still believe that. I had to clarify this to a colleague 
only the other day.

   Johnny