From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Gnot
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:06:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a04be3b50594ddaa0d463b930e107175@mightycheese.com> (raw)
> I looked at:
>
> http://www.bell-labs.com/user/dwd/5620faq.html
>
> which says:
>
> In the System V world, someone (we don't know who) apparently decided
> that a pty-like solution was too inefficient. Thus, they created the
> xt driver.
>
> I think the original xt work was done by Piers Lauder [at 1127].
piers was in USG at the time. i believe he wanted to use the streams
version but STREAMS (USG always capitalized it for some reason) wasn't
politically viable in USG yet, so he did a kernel muxer instead.
-rob
next reply other threads:[~2002-10-25 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-25 12:06 rob pike, esq. [this message]
2002-10-25 12:55 ` Boyd Roberts
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2002-10-25 20:17 [9fans] gnot Charles Forsyth
2002-10-30 9:38 ` emanuel stiebler
2002-10-25 14:53 [9fans] Gnot presotto
2002-10-25 13:01 jmk
2002-10-25 16:03 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-10-25 12:04 Geoff Collyer
2002-10-25 12:03 rob pike, esq.
2002-10-25 12:00 rob pike, esq.
2002-10-25 10:05 Geoff Collyer
2002-10-25 11:38 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-10-24 9:19 Geoff Collyer
2002-10-25 9:03 ` emanuel stiebler
2002-10-24 8:56 emanuel stiebler
2002-10-24 9:12 ` Anders Soendergaard
2002-10-25 9:03 ` emanuel stiebler
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