Clarification. “From whence it came” meant where SunOS-4.0 got STREAMS not from where streams came from. > On Sep 12, 2016, at 7:16 AM, Brantley Coile wrote: > > http://articles.latimes.com/1988-01-07/business/fi-33970_1_sun-microsystems > > You might have the year wrong. The agreement between AT&T and Sun was announced in 1988. A year would be about right to incorporate some of the new stuff. > > But getting back to your original comment that you are not aware of any streams implementation before SunOS-4.0, do you mean that it was the first you became aware of? Certainly System V, from whence it came, predated SunOS-4.0 and 8th Edition predated that. My copy of the tty_ld(4) man page was printed Feb 10, 1985. > > Brantley > bwc at coraid.com > http://coraid.com > >> On Sep 12, 2016, at 7:00 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> >> Brantley Coile wrote: >> >>> SunOS-4.0 was released in December of 1988, if I remember correctly. I had a streams based tty driver sometime in 1987 and I was just duplicating what Dennis et al has done in the Labs. >> >> IIRC, I had a copy of SunOS-4.0 sometime in autumn 1987. It (and the Sun AT&T >> deal based on the code) definitely was the top topic in the Sun User Group >> meeting in December 1987. >> >> Jörg >> >> -- >> EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin >> joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ >> URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/' >