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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Sockets and the true UNIX
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:27:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170921162738.GE25650@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2N-WEHBoBY66bYNxZmsiWOrR9AN17fCUi2Xk0ShLee=cA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:25:13PM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > The STREAMS stuff never performed well
> 
> ???Larry is being polite.   It sucked.???
> 
> ??? It was never designed for it.  dmr designed Streams to replace the tty
> handler.   I never understood  why the Summit guys insisted on forcing
> networking into it.???

+1 

I've always tried to make it clear that dmr's streams != Sys V STREAMS.
I thought dmr streams were cool, I detest the Sys V STREAMS.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-21 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-21 16:01 Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-21 16:07 ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-21 16:10 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-21 16:20   ` David Edmondson
2017-09-21 16:25   ` Clem Cole
2017-09-21 16:27     ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-09-21 16:37     ` [TUHS] Sockets and the true UNIX [ actually carping about streams ] Jon Steinhart
2017-09-21 18:26   ` [TUHS] Sockets and the true UNIX Chet Ramey
2017-09-21 16:13 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-21 16:17   ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-21 20:36     ` Chris Torek
2017-09-21 18:56   ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-21 19:13     ` Steve Simon
2017-09-21 19:31       ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-21 20:15         ` ron minnich
2017-09-21 20:34           ` Clem Cole
2017-09-21 23:26   ` Dave Horsfall
     [not found] <mailman.1105.1506026200.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-09-22 10:36 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-09-22 14:32   ` Clem Cole
2017-09-22 14:42     ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-22 14:47       ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-22 14:52         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-09-22 14:49       ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-22 14:57         ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-22 18:14           ` Chris Torek
2017-09-22 18:43             ` Clem Cole
2017-09-22 19:08             ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-22 20:57               ` Chris Torek
2017-09-24 18:04                 ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-22 18:00   ` Chris Torek
2017-09-25 17:57 Norman Wilson
2017-09-25 18:55 ` Clem Cole

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