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From: "Tom Duff"
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:18:39 -0700
In-Reply-To: Steve Kilbane
"Re: [9fans] Client/server program sample code request.." (Sep 22, 7:40am)
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Client/server program sample code request..
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On Sep 22, 7:40am, Steve Kilbane wrote:
> Boyd wrote:
> > dial() is just _so_ much better than that ghastly bezerkley socket
> > interface.
>
> It is, true. I do wonder, though, how much of the mess vs. cleanliness
> difference came about because much of the common uses of networks had
> settled down a lot by the time Plan 9 first came into existence.
> I.e, were the BSD lot trying to solve predicted problems that came to
> be irrelevant to 99.99% of people writing network code?
There was some talk about this when wnj was designing the
BSD socket code, and I think it's fair to say that he had
his mind made up, and did pretty much what he wanted.
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Tom Duff. I'm not running for anything, so I can answer honestly.
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