Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Tue Oct 07, 2025 14:18

@VIA: REALITY
I read an article on lwn.net, trying to find it now, titled "What is
UNIX". I can't find it now, will post the URL when I see it.

What I'd forgotten about was the notion that "everything is a file".
That made building complex operations outof simple applications in
scripting languages possible.

I loved the notion of running a tar command through gzip and redirecting
the output to /dev/tape. So simple, so abstract.



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