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by kjs3 585 days ago
How do you think 'file-sockets' are implemented over a network?
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jbverschoor 584 days ago
They don’t have to use TCP. The point was to use sockets as the abstraction layer and use another inter-connect instead of TCP/IP. That way you’ve easily replaced TCP in the datacenter without major changes to many applications
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kjs3 584 days ago
Oh...your argument is replacing TCP is the easy part. Gotcha. Sure.
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