(was slashes, now NFS devices)

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Tue Mar 12 09:39:17 AEST 1991


In article <12662:Mar620:02:2491 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> Any argument you come up with will apply equally well to files.

> FILES ARE STATE.

You can write block 2 of a file as many times as you like without changing
its contents. You can't do that with a terminal.
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