[ih] Early sockets discussion paper

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Joe Touch

    > I've always wondered about the chicken-and-egg issue of BSD sockets
    > vs. the interface defined in the early TCP specs.

?? See below...

    > Does anyone happen to know whether TCP v1, v2, or the split TCP/IP v3
    > variants that preceded the current v4 had the same interface spec

Without checking to be sure (and it's been a _long_ time, so don't put much
weight on this), I think they were (modulo changes to the protocol, e.g.  EOL
changes). But the docs are out there, it would not be too hard to check.

    > and the direction of influence (TCP to BSD or the converse)?

BSD _long_ post-dates the TCP spec.

    Noel