What is Socket A?

Answer 1

It is a term used to refer to places that you plug things into your mother board i.e.; CPU, memory, add on cards etc. Additionally in a different context it also represents a single connection between two network applications.

[edit: synonym=port]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_socket Internet socket (or commonly, a network socket or socket) is the endpoint of bidirectional communication flow across an internet Protocol-based computer network, such as the Internet

A socket is one end-point of a two-way communication link between two programs running on the network.

Answer 2

Socket A is the CPU socket used for AMD processors that range from Athlon Thunderbird to the Athlon XP/MP 3200+. It also includes AMD's budget processors such as the Sempron and the Duron. It also suports AMD Geode NX embedded processors too. It is important to note that Socket A only supports 32-bit CPUs.

Socket A is also known as Socket 462.

It is a zero insertion force pin grid array type with 453 pins. Nine of the pins are blocked in the socket in order to prevent any accidental insertion of socket 370 CPUs.

Socket A was replaced by Socket 754 in 2003 and Socket 939 in 2004. However, it is still used in conjunction with Geode NX processors.

Answer 3

The server client applications use various system calls to connect which use the basic construct called socket. A socket is one end of the communication channel between two applications running on different machines.