>From "The Organization of Networks in Plan 9": a. "Asynchronous communications channels such as pipes, TCP conversations, Datakit conversations, and RS232 lines are implemented using streams."
b. "Streams remain in our kernel because we are unable to devise a better alternative." Also, in a previous question (http://groups.google.com/group/ comp.os.plan9/browse_thread/thread/771294cf1d34c337) it was stated that streams are no longer used. So what's the present mechanism that replaces streams?
