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When Apple bought NeXT I was surprised when they dropped Open Transport. They had been touting The move from sockets to streams as the future and had finally mi
by detourdog 4y ago
When Apple bought NeXT I was surprised when they dropped Open Transport. They had been touting The move from sockets to streams as the future and had finally migrated to Open Transport. I specifically remember hearing from Avie that Streams maybe technically better but sockets are so foundational that the new OS would use sockets. He felt streams just weren't an option.