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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7265 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:50:52 EST Xref: sserve comp.unix.wizards:28275 comp.org.eff.talk:11767 comp.org.usenix:3141 comp.unix.bsd:10192 Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!haven.umd.edu!decuac!pa.dec.com!decprl!decprl!boyd From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Message-ID: <1993Jan19.233617.23139@prl.dec.com> Sender: news@prl.dec.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: spooky.prl.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory References: <1993Jan17.203539.6063@s4mjs.uucp> <v0r38cs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> <1jerr9INNpc8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Jan18.211011.616@colorado.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 23:36:17 GMT Lines: 19 In article <1993Jan18.211011.616@colorado.edu>, panos@burton.cs.colorado.edu (Panos Tsirigotis) writes: > > Could somebody summarize the differences between streams and STREAMS ? > (or point to a paper with that info) > The difference is that a beautiful piece of design and implementation was taken and ruthlessly slaughtered to turn it into ``a product''. A simple lines of code vs functionality metric can prove this. V8 streams were some 5-10 times smaller in code size and had complete functionality. I could quote a source on the ``productisation'' of streams regarding what actually happened, but I am not pepared to divulge my source. Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com I think you hear me knocking, and I think I'm coming in... And you know what? I'm already wearing the Bullet-Proof T-shirt.