From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:05:04 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Ethernet in /dev (was Re:  Were all of you.. Hippies?)
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It's a violation of the network layering concept to require or even allow
the user to bind the application data streams to a physical device.


-----Original Message-----
From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of Norman Wilson
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 11:55 AM
To: tuhs at tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Ethernet in /dev (was Re: Were all of you.. Hippies?)

Josh Good:

  Which brings up a question I have: why didn't UNIX implement ethernet
  network interfaces as file names in the filesystem? Was that "novelty" a
  BDS development straying away from AT&T UNIX?