Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Dec 2001 10:42:38 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue] |
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On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 07:38:42PM +0100, Ricardo Galli wrote: > > Amen to that. STREAMS would be one of the strongest arguments in favor > > of Linus' theory that evolution takes care of it. STREAMS were done at > > Sun by some "architects" who thought they would be better than sockets. > > Wasn't Dennis Ritchie one of the "architects" of STREAMS at Bell Labs? > > A Stream Input-Output System : AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal > 63, No. 8 Part 2 (October, 1984)
Dennis wrote something called "streams" not be confused with "STREAMS". He was trying to provide a more flexible mechanism for tty line disciplines. The Sys III guys grabbed it and decided to promote it as a networking infrastructure, because System III et al did not have networking. Dennis doesn't like the result any better than any of us. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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