From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Rick Jones  wrote:   
   (snip, I wrote)   
   >> Assuming that there is an "application", separate from the rest   
   >> of the system...   
      
   > Well, in TCPspeak the "application" is whatever is sitting above TCP.   
      
   In an embedded system, there might only be one program reading   
   and writing TCP data.   
      
   For many years I used NCSA Telnet under DOS and MacOS where it   
   ran directly off the ethernet card, no OS helping in between.   
   The configuration file gives the address and IRQ values and   
   indicates the type of ethernet card.   (There was also the   
   MacTCP version with a little help in between.)   
      
   I suppose the program can delay acting on the data, but there   
   isn't really much else for it to do.   
      
   -- glen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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