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I'd like to think the "everything is a file" mentality would've been taken a touch farther, and the command line tools would deal with networked resources bette
by qu4z-2 14y ago
I'd like to think the "everything is a file" mentality would've been taken a touch farther, and the command line tools would deal with networked resources better (eg cp ssh://example.com/~/somefile ~/localcopy)
- bitwize 14y agoOh, you mean like Plan 9? :) I would have mentioned it, but I was speaking as if Unix were invented today. Plan 9 is an almost textbook second-system effect; it seems like you have to have invented a Unix first before even starting on something like Plan 9.