[ros-general] Browsers

[Vizzini]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 02:26, eek2121 at comcast.net wrote:
> IIRC windows sockets were based on BSD sockets.

The sockets interface is taken directly from BSD, as was some initial
TCP/IP stuff, but any code that was once borrowed from those projects is
surely long gone by now.

 -Vizzini


> > 
> > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Vizzini wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 17:15, Ian McLean wrote:
> > > > I thought IE was based on NCSA Mosaic ?  Or is Mozilla based on this also ?
> > 
> > Actually, I think IE is based on the Spyglass browser, which is probably
> > only a distant cousin at this point to Mosaic.
> > 
> > BTW: Has anybody considered that the BSD TCP stack may be easier to port
> > to ReactOS? I work with another open-source operating system called eCos,
> > and it uses the BSD networking stack but its design is not like a
> > traditional UNIX kernel.
> > 
> > Perhaps this might be an easier path. I think the BSD stacks were designed
> > to be ported more easily than the Linux one. I guess the things we would
> > need are:
> > 
> >   * TDI "glue"
> >   * NDIS "glue"
> >   * A wrapper for a memory pool to allow the mbuf allocator to run.
> >     (we could just tie the mbuf allocator to the non-paged pool?)
> > 
> > Another cool thing would be to port OpenPF from the OpenBSD project to
> > ReactOS. Its an excellent packet filter and designed to work with the
> 
> > OpenBSD stack as well.
> > 
> > But I really do think that ReactOS needs to get a working TCP stack before
> > people worry too much about what browser to use.
> > 
> > L8r,
> > Mark G.
> > 
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