Subj : Re: network programming in c To : comp.programming From : dajava Date : Tue Oct 11 2005 11:20 pm Hi, > Michael Wojcik wrote: > In article <1128953763.182164.254560@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "dajava" writes: > > makc.the.great@gmail.com wrote: > > > - snip- > > "Two key types of application-layer implementations are TCP/IP > > applications and OSI applications. TCP/IP applications are protocols, > > such as Telnet, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and Simple Mail Transfer > > Protocol (SMTP), that exist in the Internet Protocol suite. OSI > > applications are protocols, such as File Transfer Access Management > > (FTAM), Virtual Terminal Protocol (VTP), and Common Management > > Information Protocol (CMIP), that exist in the OSI suite." > > That's fairly accurate, except that calling OSI implementations "key" > is debatable. While OSI has some currency as a model of data > communications, it lost the implementation war to TCP/IP. TCP/IP is > nearly the only game in town for general-purpose application networking > these days; the various alternatives (OSI, IBM's SNA, assorted > protocols developed for PCs, etc) continue to lose ground to it. > SNA? System Network Architecture? It must be the first networking technology I used. I was a IBM 370 Assembler/COBOL and CICS programmer for IBM larger systems early 1980's. > > I studied "Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) 7-layer model defined by the > > International Standards Organization (ISO)." more than 15 years ago. > > > > It seems that tcp/ip is a different technology I have never studied. > I studied "Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) 7-layer model" in 1985. The last time I did programming was 1989. I used C on IBM XT. > TCP/IP doesn't fit the OSI 7-layer model particularly well, but it - snip - How about Novel Netware? It used "Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) 7-layer model", didn't it? > > -- > Michael Wojcik michael.wojcik@microfocus.com > dajava, .