Re: MSN Winsock "Trounces" Netscape. (Was Re: Debate: PowerMac

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From: shit
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 07:08

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Well, like it would be really to trust anything Micro$hit does.



english@primenet.com (Lawson English) wrote:

>Harlan W. Stockman (hwstock@swcp.com) wrote:
>[snipt]
>: Chilton indicates it is much more difficult to write TCP/IP apps for 
>: Windows than for MacOS.  Maybe it is, but apparently a lot of folks 
>: have been up to the challenge, given the large number of cheap/free 
>: Windows and DOS TCP/IP apps out there since 1992.


>Heh. According to the latest ziff-news web page, when a new user starts 
>up Microsoft Netowrk, it changes the name of the Winsock file and 
>installs its own version which is incompatible with Netscape.

>Netscape's fix makes MSN and all other Winsock-based Windows 95 services 
>unusable...

>Sounds like a minor problem to me...


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