From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm@bitmover.com
Subject: Re: Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue]
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 10:42:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011201104238.A21766@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16AF2A-0002HG-00@linux.uib.es>
In-Reply-To: <E16AF2A-0002HG-00@linux.uib.es>; from gallir@uib.es on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 07:38:42PM +0100
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 07:38:42PM +0100, Ricardo Galli wrote:
> > Amen to that. STREAMS would be one of the strongest arguments in favor
> > of Linus' theory that evolution takes care of it. STREAMS were done at
> > Sun by some "architects" who thought they would be better than sockets.
>
> Wasn't Dennis Ritchie one of the "architects" of STREAMS at Bell Labs?
>
> A Stream Input-Output System : AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal
> 63, No. 8 Part 2 (October, 1984)
Dennis wrote something called "streams" not be confused with "STREAMS".
He was trying to provide a more flexible mechanism for tty line
disciplines. The Sys III guys grabbed it and decided to promote it as
a networking infrastructure, because System III et al did not have
networking. Dennis doesn't like the result any better than any of us.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-01 18:38 Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue] Ricardo Galli
2001-12-01 18:42 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2001-12-01 19:17 ` Victor Yodaiken
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2001-11-28 23:29 Coding style - a non-issue Peter Waltenberg
2001-11-30 18:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-30 19:05 ` Larry McVoy
2001-11-30 21:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-30 22:06 ` Larry McVoy
2001-11-30 22:17 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-30 23:57 ` Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue] Larry McVoy
2001-12-01 1:13 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-01 1:15 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-01 2:17 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-01 2:14 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-01 11:41 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-01 23:05 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-02 20:29 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-02 20:34 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-02 20:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-02 21:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-02 21:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-04 1:55 ` Martin J. Bligh
2001-12-04 9:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-02 21:19 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-03 6:38 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-02 21:23 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-02 21:39 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-02 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-04 16:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-12-04 1:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2001-12-02 21:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-02 22:52 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-02 23:54 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-03 12:08 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-04 9:36 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-12-04 1:59 ` Martin J. Bligh
2001-12-06 13:46 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-06 20:50 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-06 21:09 ` Wilson
2001-12-04 9:21 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-12-04 9:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-04 11:55 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-12-03 23:01 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-12-04 3:38 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-04 6:32 ` Martin J. Bligh
2001-12-04 9:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-04 9:27 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2001-12-04 23:02 ` Martin J. Bligh
2001-12-04 23:31 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-04 23:37 ` Martin J. Bligh
2001-12-06 14:07 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-01 10:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-01 9:30 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-12-01 23:31 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-02 16:21 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-12-02 16:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-02 18:41 ` jeff millar
2001-12-01 1:18 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-01 10:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-01 17:16 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-12-02 16:19 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-12-02 16:44 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-02 17:10 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-02 17:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-02 18:16 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-02 18:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-02 18:26 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-02 19:33 ` [MOc]cda*mirabilos
2001-12-03 0:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-02 18:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-02 18:54 ` M. Edward Borasky
2001-12-03 3:22 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-03 14:31 ` M. Edward Borasky
2001-12-04 9:28 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-04 13:41 ` David Weinehall
2001-12-04 19:35 ` Dan Hollis
2001-12-04 19:57 ` David Weinehall
2001-12-04 19:34 ` Dan Hollis
2001-12-04 22:22 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-06 0:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-01 1:21 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-01 5:01 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-12-01 22:05 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-05 7:05 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-12-01 16:04 ` Mark Frazer
2001-12-01 16:10 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-01 5:50 ` Mike Fedyk
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