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I've missed NCSA Mosaic so much. What a flashback! But do you guys remember Trumpet Winsock?
by Sami_Lehtinen 12y ago
I've missed NCSA Mosaic so much. What a flashback! But do you guys remember Trumpet Winsock?
- abandonliberty 12y agoGod we're old. Someone started a donation page for the creator. http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/ http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/
- frik 12y agoYou can always use Internet Explorer, it's based on the Mosaic browser. Up to version 6, the Mosaic code copyright notice was in the about dialog.
- SystemOut 12y agoYeah, we're definitely old. I was working my first developer gig at a company that had a commercial TCP/IP stack for Win 3.1+. Trumpet came up all the time especially from customers that were trying to get a better deal. Sort of a tangent but I still remember building a SOCKS client on top of Winsock using undocumented Windows APIs. It was great that you could simply ask Windows to alias your code segment register to look like a data segment register and then replace the first 5 bytes of function calls to jump where you wanted it to go. And DLLs were in the global space back then. So it changed it for every app using that DLL. Those were fun days.
- yuhong 12y agoWhich also reminds me that MS made the decision to go to a flat address space when designing OS/2 2.0 and "NT OS/2" in the late 1980s, ignoring the Morris worm.