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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:05:09 -0700
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?
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> "Finally, the /dev namespace is a public directory holding symbolic links=
 to
> ServiceProviderContract endpoints in the /hardware/drivers subtree. In
> this manner,
> an application can be bound to a public name, without knowing the true
> name of the driver."

i'll translate:

/dev =3D /dev
ServiceProviderContract =3D "mount"
/hardware/drivers subtree =3D "poung (#)" devices (section 3 of the manual)

:)