Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 14:59:43 +0000 From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: streams Message-ID: <199601211459.OAA00607@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: "Garrett A. Wollman"'s message of Jan 19, 2:24pm
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> From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> > Date: Fri 19 Jan, 1996 > Subject: Re: streams > It is well-known to be disadvantageous to actually /use/ streams. "That depends." Despite its ugliness (and boy is the upper case version ugly), the modular architecture and the fact that the environment is so well-defined gives the advantage of portability and flexibility. At my day job, we certainly have protocol stacks that are fast enough, can be developed mostly in user space on nice, friendly BSD systems (and Purify'd, etc...), and run unmodified in many embedded systems with (or without) a variety of operating systems. The bits can also be (and are) plugged together in all sorts of wierd and wonderful ways. For a good many people, that's pretty advantageous. (Don't take this as an endorsement of the TLI, however...) Mark.
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