Dennis wrote something called "streams" not be confused with "STREAMS".
He was trying to provide a more flexible mechanism for tty line
disciplines. The Sys III guys grabbed it and decided to promote it as
a networking infrastructure, because System III et al did not have
networking. Dennis doesn't like the result any better than any of us.
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