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From: mja@TWG.COM (Mike Anello)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: RE: streams based tcpip vs character based tcpip
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Date: 9 Jun 88 17:25:00 GMT
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>Mike - Being unwilling to show my ignorance to the whole tcp-ip list,
>I will ask you: what is the difference between streams vs character ?
>Does it have to do with System V vs 4.3 bsd ?  Regards - Craig

The difference is that streams based tcpip is built with stream drivers and
modules where character based tcpip is built with UNIX V or BSD character device
drivers. Two different technologies.

Mike