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Transport Layer Interface - Definition and Overview |
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In computer software, specifically networking, the Transport Layer Interface (TLI) was the networking API provided by AT&T UNIX System V Release 3.0, and was the System V counterpart to BSD sockets. TLI was later standardised as XTI, the X/Open Transport Interface.
Although TLI and STREAMS were first introduced with SVR3, no actual protocol implementations were provided until SVR4 shipped with TCP/IP support. It was expected at the time that the OSI protocols would supersede TCP/IP, and TLI is designed from an OSI model-oriented viewpoint, corresponding to the OSI transport layer.
TLI and XTI were never as widely used as BSD sockets, and although it they are still supported in SVR4-derived operating systems such as Solaris, sockets are now the de-facto standard networking API.
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Example Usage of Transport |
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BarretWallace: #red @Aerith_CC :: Should've been there. I'm not most of the time. Working in Junon with oil Transport. Keeping 7th up and running. :: |
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natspacino: Excellent! Smelly people on the train...my favourite thing about public Transport. |
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UrsyBaybee: I hate london Transport, I mean how hard is it 2 wash under ur arms KMT |
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