[TUHS] BSD/v8 TCP/IP

[Doug McIlroy]

> Interesting, but then nobody did run a modern shell on one of these machines or
> everybody did type slowly, so the character lossage problem did not occur.

I'm afraid I don't get the point, apparently something about the
relative performance of stream- and non-stream tty drivers. How
do shells get into the act? And didn't uucp, which was certainly
not a slow typist, appear like any dial-up connection and thus
use /dev/ttyxx? (I cannot recollect, though, when dial-up uucp
finally ceased.)

DOug