Winsock

Short for Windows socket, Winsock was released in January 1993 and is based on the Berkeley Sockets APIs version 4.3. Winsock is an interface that allows communication between TCP/IP and Windows. Trumpet Winsock, written by Peter Tattam and was widely used with Windows 3.x users. However, with the release of Microsoft Windows 95, the DLL (dynamic-link library) winsock.dll became the most commonly used Windows socket.

Computer abbreviations, Internet terms, Network terms, SOCKS