From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:25:13 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Sockets and the true UNIX In-Reply-To: <20170921161040.GC25650@mcvoy.com> References: <20170921160112.ctpv4a52t5rjcqzg@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <20170921161040.GC25650@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Larry McVoy 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.​ > and the BSD TCP stack or something > ​ ​ > like it went into Solaris at some point. ​Right. This is one of the places where SVR4 != Solaris I was researching a book a long time ago and looked at this. I had Solaris, SVR4 and some other stuff at the time. Like you bit rot has long set in on the details, but I do remember that the primary thing that Solaris had was support for Sun's threading model and the networking code had to be a first class citizen ​or it was not going to scale. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: