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Re:Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace by fnord123 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:00PM (#26556567)
I think before UNIX there weren't nice APIs for different types of file access. It was more like getting a raw block device and being told "fill your boots".

stream-of-bytes was the right idea then. It doesn't mean it is still right.

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Re:Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace by stormking on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:30PM (#26556907)
You think wrong, it was exactly the same approach of defining a "nice API" for each type of file.

It failed.

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Re:Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace by nix23 on Friday March 26, 2021 @10:26AM (#26592547)
Before Multics...not UNIX ;)
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