11 Aug
2023
11 Aug
'23
3:50 p.m.
Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Aug 10 12:45:54 AEST 2023
wrote:
Yea, I thought it was 4.1bsd + later tcp code but with a STREAMS instead of
Socket interface...
Please see this old TUHS post for some more background in DMR’s own words:
https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-August/018325.html
On the topic of DMR Streams, I’m increasingly intrigued by its design: recently I’ve been
deep diving into classic USB to better understand this class of devices and how to drive
them (https://gitlab.com/pnru/usb_host) It would seem to me that Streams would have been
a neat way to organise the USB driver stack in a v8 context. Note that an USB analog did
exist in 1982: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex-Bus
Sometimes I wonder what combining v8 streams with v8 virtual directories (i.e. like
Killian’s /proc) could have looked like. Having the streams network stack (or usb stack)
exposed as virtual directories would have been quite powerful.