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From: eekee57@fastmail.fm (Ethan Grammatikidis)
Date: Mon,  4 Apr 2011 16:53:54 +0100
Subject: [9fans] more "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" questions
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On 4 Apr 2011, at 9:36 am, faif wrote:
>
> "Using streams to implement network interfaces in the kernel allows
> protocols to be connected together dynamically, such as to attach the
> same TTY driver to TCP, URP, and IL connections, but Plan 9 makes no
> use of this configurability."

This one makes no sense to me. TTY driver... network interface? If  
those two things make sense together, it still makes no sense to put  
them both together in the Plan 9's kernel, I'm sure.