[Gambas-user] #Stream

Rolf-Werner Eilert rwe-sse at osnanet.de
Thu Aug 16 08:31:00 CEST 2018


Good explanation!

> The reason beleve it or not was that in those days we did not write to files we wrote to devices: teletypes, lineprinters, card punches, card readers etc. Disk drives? What kind of new fangled tomfoolery is that?

This makes it somewhat clearer, why DOS/Windows had/still has this 
"device:" concept. And AmigaOS had.

And it must have been revolutionary modern to have the "File" concept in 
Unix.

Regards
Rolf


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