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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]
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- 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...
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 92
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