Taverner
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Fri Sep-16-11 06:16 PM
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Everything is a file: The UNIX system applied to life |
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UNIX is an operating system that sits on a large number of server-class computers.
There are many "flavors" of it - from Solaris (Oracle) to HPUX (HP) to AIX (IBM.)
There is Linux, which is very similar, but some people feel isn't a "true" UNIX OS. I like it. You can run it on any computer you want, and it runs faster than Windows (most of the time.)
Even the OS on Macs is a UNIX OS. It's BSD (Berkeley Systems Design) in a variant called 'Darwin.' Take that Ray Comfort!
Anyway - my proposal is that the computer is a metaphor for the brain - only that the brain is a Quantum Computer, in wetware, and UNIX has only been built for Binary Computers. Bits v Qbits.
If you ever want to understand UNIX - just know that 'everything is a file.'
Your sound card, your monitor, your network card, your modem - everything is a file.
Files usually have other files that serve as modifiers, but the file remains the file. As long as the system is running.
Your thoughts?
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Shagbark Hickory
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Fri Sep-16-11 06:22 PM
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1. OK, so everything's a file. |
Ptah
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Fri Sep-16-11 06:38 PM
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2. Just like a machine shop. Everything is a file. Some work faster than others. |
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Sat Sep-17-11 12:28 AM
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3. services are not files |
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Sat Sep-17-11 12:35 AM
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4. Our universe is a program on an alien super computer. |
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Have fun with your run through the simulation and don't forget to take it easy...
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Sat Sep-17-11 12:39 AM
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5. But what is the motivation of the machine language? |
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Why does it bother to run any OS software at all?
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