I 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) fro

I 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".