[Info-vax] First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/16/2022 10:06 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 4/16/2022 7:15 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2022-04-17 kl. 00:25, skrev Dave Froble:
>>> How about anything that offers some service that might be needed over 
>>> the
>>> internet?
>>
>> That is not the common definition. "The internet" is a lot of other
>> things than "the web". The web is usualy defined by a collectins of
>> protocols and there are manby other protocols used on the internet.
>>
>> Note that "the internet" and "the web" is not the same thing.
>>
>> You can create a socket listener that clients conects to, but that
>> has very litle to do with "the web".
>>
>> As Arne also wrote, a "web service" use the protocols that are used
>> between web client (usually web browsers) and web servers. The web
>> servers then uses web services server processes.
>>
>> A traditional "socket listener" is not a "web service".
> 
> Yeah, Ok, but they all have socket listeners at the core with additional 
> stuff piled on top.

A web service framework is build on top of a socket listener.

But there is a lot on top of it!

:-)

Arne