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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Some ideas on the driver interface (was: Re: Release of drivers etc.)
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Date: 3 Mar 93 02:50:29 GMT
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In article <C32vAt.3t9.1@cs.cmu.edu> cmaeda+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda) writes:
>
>It seems like the real solution is do away with this "/dev/xxx" brain
>damage entirely. Why use the file system to replicate state that the
>kernel is perfectly capable of managing by itself???
I've always considered this to be one of the neater things about
UNIX. Everything, to some degree, can be represented as a file, and you
don't have to have the same complete isolation from the hardware as one has
under say DOS or Windows...
I don't know much about how practical this is, but it's certainly
rather nice to be able to just cat something to /dev/tty?? and things like
that....
ToodlepiP!
Marc 'em.
--
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