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> If you open up your computer and get out your microscope, you're not going to find the pipe. You should be able to, though. The pipe has a (OS) memory locati
by Phrodo_00 6y ago
> If you open up your computer and get out your microscope, you're not going to find the pipe.
You should be able to, though. The pipe has a (OS) memory location, which, after a bunch of redirections, is an absolute location in memory, which is a bunch of capacitors and transistors. Now, you could argue that those redirections are akin to metaphors, though.
- anyfoo 6y agoOr I could argue that I could ultimate find the capacitors and transistors for anything else we're talking about here. Except if they're just transistors because the representation of the pipe is sitting in static RAM for some reason, or in the fluctuation of a magnetic field. Or all of the above at the same time (caches, page files). Which one is the "real", non-metaphorical representation of the pipe? The one in the cache because it's being worked on by the CPU? The one in memory because its lifetime is longer?