13 Apr
2020
13 Apr
'20
7:43 a.m.
It did? I think a version of streams showed up at some point, and were
replaced; of that you are correct. But it certainly didn't begin with
anything like streams. It began with a file system mux.
-rob
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:16 AM Anthony Martin <ality(a)pbrane.org> wrote:
As an aside, Plan 9 began with a descendant of dmr's streams
but replaced it in mid-1993 with a simple queued i/o scheme.
This was done for performance and to simplify the code since
they didn't end up using much of the streams functionality.
Anthony