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Subject: Re: [9fans] Gnot
From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:06:05 -0400
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> 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