[TUHS] V8, V9 and V10 now in the "Unix Tree"

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Sun Apr 12 01:44:28 AEST 2020


On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 11:38:44AM -0400, Norman Wilson wrote:
> -- Stream I/O system added; all communication-device
> drivers (serial ports, Ethernet, Datakit) changed to
> work with streams.  Pipes were streams.

How was performance?  Was this Dennis' streams, not Sys V STREAMS?

I ported Lachmans/Convergents STREAMS based TCP/IP stack to the
ETA 10 Unix and SCO Unix and performance just sucked.  Ditto for
the Solaris port (which I did not do, I don't think it made any
difference who did the port though).


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