> On 31 May 2015, at 14:16, Kelvin Knighton <kelthe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> HI guys&girls I'm reading some code over @ joyent github repository 
> node/lib/dgram 
> does the name stand for something? - dgram

"Datagram", which comes out of the BSD socket terminology for dealing with 
networks.

Datagrams are known-size messages, delivered whole or not at all -- it's the D 
in UDP -- rather than a streaming protocol like TCP.

Aria

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