This has been bugging me for years....

[odin]

Clickety-click.

Actually dialer is a stupid name too, I haven't used a TCP/IP stack with the reason for dialing into an ISP for years :-). In fact AmiTCP didn't have a dialer of it's own back in the day IIRC. It wasn't until Miami that the stack and the dialer were neatly integrated. Or perhaps TermiteTCP was earlier?


And some clickety-click

Hence the TCP/IP stack has nothing to do with the stack of memory application fame :-).

[odin]

Well, USB can I guess be split in layers too, as can the TCP/IP thingy. And googling on 'USB stack' shows that it isn't an Amiga specific term. In fact, the term USB stack probably isn't used much as in the major OSs it's seamlessly into the OS itself. If you dig back a few year in Windows you'll find that the earlier W95 (spit) versions didn't include an 'USB stack'.

Here's a link to a third-party NT4 USB stack.