On generalizations in networking software to encourage code portability
P. Peters, R. Dearuz, C.-T. Sung, Chung-Yu Wang, Branislav Meandzija · 1989
The principal issues involved in porting networking software are discussed and solutions that have been used to implement a standard environment interface to encourage code portability are reported. This interface has been designed to provide a uniform environment to protocol drivers generated by the Archetype language compiler. The structure of the present implementation is outlined and issues relating to the environment interface are elaborated. The implementation provides both portable data representation and portable systems services.>