From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: brantleycoile@me.com (Brantley Coile) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 07:42:43 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] BSD/v8 TCP/IP (was Shell control through external commands) In-Reply-To: <14DDB012-4240-458B-AA72-5D166050F1FF@me.com> References: <20160912044432.GA74856@eureka.lemis.com> <10251.1473659309@cesium.clock.org> <57d673dd.P8trNROkC31YMyR9%schily@schily.net> <57d68ab5.GH44OJE/x7Hw4DKN%schily@schily.net> <14DDB012-4240-458B-AA72-5D166050F1FF@me.com> Message-ID: <802FE8F3-D0F0-4187-8635-954EA6AEF5A6@me.com> 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/' >