Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!think!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!bunyip!cuscus.cc.uq.oz.au!ggm From: ggm@cuscus.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix TCP/IP Message-ID: <`='.641800247@cuscus.cc.uq.oz.au> Date: 4 May 90 05:50:47 GMT References: <4478@plains.UUCP> Sender: news@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au Lines: 22 This is a comment on TCP/IP and minix from a minix-ignorant p.o.v which you can feel free to ignore. I recall Charles Forsyth at *.york.ac.uk putting a version of streams into a V7(ish) kernel in what he described as "an amazingly short lineprinter listing" worth of code. This is streams as described by Ritchie in papers, not as implemented in sysV.x Streams seem a nicer abstraction for I/O. they also would seem to fit into (what I understand to be) minix's architecture quite nicely. If you must do TCP/IP for minix, choose a good abstraction to work on. sockets can always be emulated by a tiny layer of code on top can't they? -- George Michaelson Internet: G.Michaelson@cc.uq.oz.au Phone: +61 7 377 4079 Postal: George Michaelson, Prentice Computer Centre Queensland University, St Lucia, QLD Australia 4067.