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W. Richard Stevens

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in Luanshya, Zambia

February 05, 1951

Died

September 01, 1999

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William Richard (Rich) Stevens was a Northern Rhodesia–born American author of computer science books, in particular books on Unix and TCP/IP.

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Average rating: 4.33 · 4,752 ratings · 125 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment 4.34 avg rating — 1,713 ratings — published 1992 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) 4.31 avg rating — 1,290 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	UNIX Network Programming: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI; Volume 1 4.31 avg rating — 613 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	TCP/IP Illustrated: The Implementation, Vol. 2 by W. Richard Stevens, W. Richard Stevens 4.26 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API by W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, Andrew M. Rudoff 4.35 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications 4.35 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	TCP/IP Illustrated: v. 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP and the Unix Domain Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) by W. Richard Stevens, Gary R. Wright 4.10 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	TCP/IP Illustrated Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set 4.62 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unix Network Programming 4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unix Network Programming Volume 1: The S: The Sockets Networking API - Vol. 1 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“iterative and concurrent. An iterative server iterates through the following steps: I1. Wait for a client request to arrive. I2. Process the client request. I3. Send the response back to the client that sent the request. I4. Go back to step I1. The problem with an iterative server occurs when step I2 takes a long time. During this time no other clients are serviced. A concurrent server, on the other hand, performs the following steps: C1. Wait for a client request to arrive. C2. Start a new server instance to handle this client’s request. This may involve creating a new process, task, or thread, depending on what the underlying operating system supports. This new server handles one client’s entire request. When the requested task”
― W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols

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