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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: talk session
Message-ID: <7759@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 12 May 91 17:50:09 GMT
References: <1991May08.175740.12233@kithrup.COM> <7739@auspex.auspex.com> <1991May10.203625.23219@kithrup.COM>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >The version of SysVr3.0 for teh 3B15 that CSU Northridge got when I was
 >there did not have STREAMS, and, therefore, didn't have poll().  (And, yeah,
 >I checked:  it didn't have poll().)
 >
 >I don't know if that was a weird release, or if it was standard.  I am
 >fairly certain that STREAMS were standard for 3.1 and later.

I am completely certain that STREAMS were standard for 3.0 on the 3B2;
perhaps the folks who did the 3B15 version left them out for some reason
(if so, that's a strong argument for forcing UNIX ports for various
platforms to share as much of the source tree as possible, to force them
to be as similar as possible).