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From std-unix-request@uunet.uu.net Sat Sep 8 10:20:39 1990
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From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace)
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Subject: Standards Update, IEEE 1003.4: Real-time Extensions
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From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace)
Date: 7 Sep 90 15:23:19 GMT
From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
[Most of quoted message deleted. -mod]
It is true that other operating systems get along without devices,
IPC, etc. in their filesystems. That's fine for them; but it's not
relevant to Unix. Unix programming has a history of relying on the
filesystem to take care of things that other systems handle as special
cases -- devices, for example....
What defineds `true Unix?' Don't forget that Multics had all this and
more in the filesystem; this stuff was REMOVED when Unix was written.
Is this `continued development by the creators of Unix' just going
back to what Unix rejected 20 years ago?
Or for a pun for Multics fans: what goes around comes around...
Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 92