[ros-general] Browsers

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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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