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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 10:42:38 -0800
From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
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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.
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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