Everything is a file: The UNIX system applied to life

[Taverner]

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?

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. OK, so everything's a file.

Now what?

[Ptah]

2. Just like a machine shop. Everything is a file. Some work faster than others.

In the shop the other day - - -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if7W2YGpEuk

[TrogL]

3. services are not files

[AllenVanAllen]

4. Our universe is a program on an alien super computer.

Have fun with your run through the simulation and don't forget to take it easy...

[kentauros]

5. But what is the motivation of the machine language?

Why does it bother to run any OS software at all?

[Riftaxe]

6. renice 20 42 -u life