Dual Universes

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Apr29.222849.7981 at ico.isc.com> rcd at ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>... it'sdistressing to folks who thought V.4 might help simplify things.

But it DOES help simplify things.  Surely it's better to provide a single
kernel mechanism (streams) and provide a socket compatibility library than
to provide just one or the other?  At least they did this right and put
just one mechanism (the more generally useful mechanism) in the kernel.