Low quality and uninformative This article is really bad First this sentence Eric S Raymond quotes Ritchie as saying about the complexity of System V STREAMS when compared to his V8 Streams that Streams means something different when shouted imparts zero information and is neither cute nor funny It doesn t even make sense Second there is absolutely no information in the article about what STREAMS actually does or how it is different from sockets There is a fair amount of My schwantz is bigger than your schwantz here on the talk page but precious little info Ten minutes search elsewhere gave me the real difference between STREAMS and sockets several articles showing tests that STREAMS was two or three times faster than sockets and a couple descriptions of why sockets would be a better choice for other tasks No such information is contained here Bad show chaps