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UNIX idea of (almost) everything is a file is probably one of the reasons that made its concepts and quirks so long lived and why we have to deal with them even
by marcodiego 6y ago
UNIX idea of (almost) everything is a file is probably one of the reasons that made its concepts and quirks so long lived and why we have to deal with them even today. Although I agree with many of the points of "the UNIX hater's manual" no other OS came even close the influence that UNIX has had.
- pjmlp 6y agoBecause none of the alternatives was free beer with source code as dessert. Everything is a file on UNIX until it isn't, when it comes to IPC and everything that came after Bell Labs was done with it.