RE: [ros-general] Browsers

IIRC windows sockets were based on BSD sockets.
>   
>  
>  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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[Vizzini]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 02:26, eek2121(a)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.
> >  
> >  _______________________________________________
> >  ros-general mailing list
> >  ros-general(a)reactos.com
> >  http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general 
>  
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