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And also because STREAMS/TLI/XTI was awful.
by cryptonector 4y ago
And also because STREAMS/TLI/XTI was awful.
- jrpelkonen 4y agoI found this quote by Henry Spencer amusing: > It is important to distinguish "streams" (Dennis Ritchie's term for his revised non-block-device i/o system) from "STREAMS" (what AT&T put into System V). Dennis's streams cleaned up a lot of mess, and improved performance to boot. But as Dennis is rumored to have said, "`streams' means something different when shouted".
- cryptonector 4y agoYes, quite. At Sun we used to have a pejorative phrase "it came from NJ" which referred to code added by AT&T but which wasn't from Ritchie et. al.