Maarten Wiltink wrote: > "Danny Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Maarten Wiltink wrote: > >>> I still have a working (when I left it) 386SX-16 with 5 MB RAM. Is >>> there an NTP port for Windows for Workgroups 3.11? >> I very much doubt it. Even Windows 95 can't run the later version of >> NTP because it uses I/O Completion Ports. You might find an old NTP >> client but noone writes code for something that old these days and >> it's not clear what kind of IP stack would work with it. > > That question was very much tongue-in-cheek but nevertheless I much > appreciate the straightfaced reaction. >
We get a lot of queries for running ntpd on Windows 9x. > You might be surprised by WfW311's TCP/IP stack - as far as I'm aware, > it was more or less lifted in one piece from BSD, to the point that it > supported IP forwarding. For Windows 95, either a new IP stack was > implemented or the existing one reworked to make a point of being > desktop, not server, software, and IP forwarding was dropped. > That's a typical Microsoft strategy. > Not that this has anything to do with I/O Completion Ports, most likely. > I assume they're some kind of asynchronous callback mechanism? > Yes, and the completion part has to be implemented in separate threads. Danny > Groetjes, > Maarten Wiltink _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
