From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] Ideas for a Unix paper I'm writing
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 22:03:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D6AEACDB-BE90-49DB-8442-4660EF61607B@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32496006.7412.1309232177333.JavaMail.root@zimbraanteil>
On Jun 27, 2011, at 9:36 PM, Jim Capp wrote:
> 2) uniform device handling - Rendering all I/O as a stream of bytes, without regard to content or record sizes, provided a universal foundation for data exchange among heterogenous devices.
And before networking, universal name space. Systems prior to this required you have both a device (aka C: or SYS$HOME:) and a directory. Also, treating everything like a file meant you can open directories (which also wasn't possible except with special system calls on other systems).
Warner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-02 4:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-28 0:11 Warren Toomey
2011-06-28 0:26 ` Larry McVoy
2011-06-28 0:32 ` Nick Downing
2011-06-28 1:00 ` Tim Newsham
2011-06-28 3:36 ` Jim Capp
2011-07-02 4:03 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2011-08-07 20:26 ` Alan D. Salewski
2011-09-02 18:33 ` Jose R. Valverde
2011-06-28 3:53 ` Jim Capp
2011-06-28 4:13 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2011-06-28 5:48 ` Nick Downing
2011-06-28 7:22 ` Tim Newsham
2011-06-28 14:18 ` Wesley Parish
2011-06-28 7:32 ` Wilko Bulte
2011-06-28 15:22 ` Al Kossow
2011-06-29 1:30 A. P. Garcia
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