Trumpet Winsock

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Trumpet Winsock
Original author(s) Peter Tattam, Trumpet Software International
Initial release1994
Operating system Microsoft Windows
SuccessorNone (by Trumpet Software); The Microsoft implementation of Winsock with Windows 95
License Shareware
Website trumpet.com.au at the Wayback Machine (archived 1999-01-28)

Trumpet Winsock is a TCP/IP stack for Windows 3.x that implemented the Winsock API, which is an API for network sockets. [1] It was developed by Peter Tattam from Trumpet Software International and distributed as shareware software. [2]

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Peter Tattam's current company, Tattam Software Enterprises Pty. Ltd., bought the rights to the Trumpet suite of software products in 2008, including Trumpet Winsock. [3] Trumpet Winsock is still distributed as shareware on the company website. [4]

History

The first version, 1.0A, was released in 1994. It rapidly gained reputation as the best tool for connecting to the internet. Guides for internet connectivity commonly advised to use Trumpet Winsock. [5] The author received very little financial compensation for developing the software. [6] [7] In 1996, a 32-bit version was released. [8]

Lawsuit

In the Trumpet Software Pty Ltd. v OzEmail Pty Ltd. case, the defendant had distributed Trumpet Winsock for free with a magazine. It did also suppress notices that the software was developed by Trumpet Software. [9]

Replacement by Microsoft

Windows 95 includes an IPv4 stack but it is not installed by default. An early version of this IPv4 stack, codenamed Wolverine, was released by Microsoft Windows for Workgroups in 1994. Microsoft also released Internet Explorer 5 for Windows 3.x with an included dialer application for calling the modem pool of a dial-up Internet service provider. The Wolverine stack does not include a dialer but another computer on the same LAN may make a dialed connection or a dialer not included with Wolverine may be used on the computer using Wolverine.[ citation needed ]

Architecture

The binary for Trumpet Winsock is called TCPMAN.EXE . [10] Other files included the main winsock.dll and three UCSC connection .cmd file scripts. [11]

References

  1. ↑ Edwards, Benj (2015-11-18). "What It Was Like To Build A World Wide Web Site In 1995". Fast Company . Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  2. ↑ Freed, John C. "Internet Q&A". The New York Times . Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  3. ↑ Tattam Software Enterprises Pty. Ltd. "Tattam Software Enterprises" . Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  4. ↑ Tattam Software Enterprises Pty. Ltd. "Downloads" . Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  5. ↑ Cifuentes, C.; Fitzgerald, A. (May 1997). "Copyright in shareware software distributed on the Internet---the Trumpet Winsock case". Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering - ICSE '97. pp. 456–464. doi:10.1145/253228.253382. ISBN   0897919149. S2CID   14737455.
  6. ↑ "The Story of Shareware, the Original In-App Purchase". Vice . November 2016. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  7. ↑ "Weirdly enough my uncle actually knew the guy who wrote Trumpet Winsock". Hacker News . 2 March 2011. Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  8. ↑ "Trumpet launches 32-bit 'sock". Australian Financial Review . 1996-07-23. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  9. ↑ Reed, Chris (2004). Internet law: text and materials (2nd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 70. ISBN   0-521-60522-9. OCLC   56632088.
  10. ↑ Hopke, Philip K. (1995-11-01). "How to start surfing the internet" . Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. InCINC '94 Selected papers from the First International Chemometrics Internet Conference. 30 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1016/0169-7439(95)00064-X. ISSN   0169-7439.
  11. ↑ Abraham, Ralph (1995). The WEB empowerment book: an introduction and connection guide to the Internet and the World-Wide Web. Frank Arnoud Jas, Willard Russell. Santa Clara, Calif.: TELOS. p. 121. ISBN   0-387-94431-1. OCLC   32517658.
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