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Winsock

Short for Windows socket, winsock was released on January 1993 and is based on the Berkeley Sockets APIs version 4.3. Winsock is an interface that allows communication between TCP/IP and Windows. Trumpet Winsock, written by Peter Tattam, was a popular winsock included or downloaded by various users to connect to the Internet. This software was most popular with users using Windows 3.x. However, with the release of Microsoft Windows 95, the dll winsock.dll was most commonly used for the Windows socket. 

Also see: Network definitions, Socks

 

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