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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: Extending the UNIX pathname syntax
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 03:04:56 EDT
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> Also, V8 uses this exact method to do networking. /dev/machine_name/pathname
> gets you a file on another machine transparently.

I feel like quibbling: make that ``as transparently as possible''.  Remote
file access is never going to be quite the same as local file access (if
only because the other machine could be down).
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