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In early days, native TCP/IP stacks wasn't good at handling so many simultaneous connections as ICQ needed to handle.
So AOL just wrote their own TCP/IP stack (I think they used this implementation not only in ICQ).
In modern days, it's legacy.
I think they already removed this stack since I left company.
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In early days, native TCP/IP stacks wasn't good at handling so many simultaneous connections as ICQ needed to handle.
So AOL just wrote their own TCP/IP stack (I think they used this implementation not only in ICQ).
In modern days, it's legacy.
I think they already removed this stack since I left company.