Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: More questions about TLI Message-ID: <9033@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 12:16:14 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.9033 Posted: Thu Dec 3 12:16:14 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 12:16:14 EST References: <8711181601.AA00849@janeb.wisc.edu> <305@halley.UUCP>, <3415@husc6.harvard.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > To deal with the problem of multiplexed data streams from multiplexed > sources, and in order to realize the client-server model the Berkeley > designer implemented the socket interface. Unnecessarily, since all those things can be done with the old interface given some thought and care. Alas, it's often tempting, not to mention exciting, to charge in and implement something new rather than thinking carefully about how it could fit in with the old way of doing things. -- Those who do not understand Unix are | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology condemned to reinvent it, poorly. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry