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Subject: Re: ancient OS history, ARM is sort of channeling the IBM 360
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:00:51 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> DTSS had communication files which were a lot like pipes.  See
> https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/DTSS/commfiles.pdf

In the beginning I thought “Unix sockets”, which handle out-of-band data, 
but they don’t let you control the entire filesystem API. Though DAG 
connections (and other topologies) are certainly doable.

One current Linux mechanism that does give total API control, though, 
would be FUSE pluggable filesystems.