[LispM] BSD style socket interface?

[Christopher Stacy]

The program you're trying to run was apparently written for a specific
operating system (Unix), and depends on a library that merely offers
compatibility betweeb slightly different versions of Unix.

The Lisp Machine is in no way Unix and does not support Unix-like APIs.

I think your estimation that creating the Sockets API would take a
week or two sounds about right.  It would take one day, followed by
debugging and testing the rest of the week.  There could be bugs
that wouldn't show up for a long time due to timing issues;
that's how network code works (or doesn't).

There are probably other interesting programs besides the one that
you want to run that rely on usocket.  The other compatibility layer
that I would wonder about is the multiprocessing interface.