• sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf
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    10 months ago

    Wireless Network Stack War? Do you mind enlightening me? I’ve never heard of such a thing.

    • db2@sopuli.xyz
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      10 months ago

      It came down to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to be the wireless network standard. For a hot minute it wasn’t clear who would come out the winner.

      I can’t find shit about it though. It was around 2000ish.

      • Gray@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        You’re probably thinking about homerf, which was the competitor to WiFi. I don’t think Bluetooth was ever marketed as an alternative to WiFi.

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        10 months ago

        Bluetooth has it’s own stack. Wifi typically runs tcpip. Your post doesn’t even make sense because both wifi and Bluetooth coexist today so clearly there was no “winner”.

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        10 months ago

        Oh wow, I’m glad Bluetooth lost given that it’s vastly inferior. I mean we’re even starting to see wifi headphones now, soon Bluetooth will be relegated to legacy devices.