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by rhabarba
702 days ago
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> Among the many hackerish features of ITS was allowing a user space process to act like a device, not just for a filesystem but as a TTY, which allowed a lot more kinds of terminals to be supported than would fit in the monitor (kernel in today’s parlance). I begin to understand where Plan 9 got that "other" kind of inspiration. |
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