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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:40:26 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple experiment
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM, erik quanstrom
<quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
>> And, in the end, if what you want is a stream, then discrete
>> request/response transactions can be made to work, but they don't
>> always work as well.
>
> streams are an illusion of the transport layer.

packets, bytes, and bits are illusions too.

russ