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From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline)
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Subject: Re: (streams)
To: mbarkah@hemi.com (Ade Barkah)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 23:10:51 -0800 (PST)
Cc: kline@tera.com, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199601200610.XAA28975@hemi.com> from "Ade Barkah" at Jan 19, 96 11:10:17 pm
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According to Ade Barkah:
> 
> 
> [Re: streams]
> 
> > > 	You could `push' or `pop' functions//modules onto an I/O
> > > 	device.  It turned writing at least I/O drivers into something
> > > 	like building things out of tinker-toys.  Simple.
> 
> Hmm, yeah, it was nice from the application level too, like
> simply pushing the "connld" module to do multiplexing. 


	Exactly.  What struck me about Streams was that
	Ritchie was continuing on the same path that he
	and Ken Thompson began with:: that you create 
	more complex things from the simpler.

> 
> I hear M.J. Karels is designing a "streams-like" mechanism
> for BSD (bstreams?), but I don't know the details.
> 

	Really? Super.  Mike Karels can do it as well
	as Dennis; and probably improve it given the
	years of use//experience that the Streams
	paradigm has gone thru.

	--g