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ems wrote:
> I prefer "everything is accessed like a file"

I haven't seen that many files I write to that have side effects on
other files.

/dev/eia0ctl for example.

I'm still not comfortable with that phrasing. It's amazing how it gets
misinterpreted by Unix and Windows folks ...

ron