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Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison (blogsystem5.substack.com)

submitted 2 months ago by exu@feditown.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Nice to see a pro NT article for a change but there are some details wrong

"It’s true that Unix has attempted to shoehorn other types of non-file objects into the file system"

'Everything is a file' was Unix's design principle from the very start. It wasn't shoehorned in. It is IMO superior to NT's object system in that everything is exposed to the user as the file system rather than hidden behind programming api's.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

I always thought it was that everything was a file but that everything could be interacted with as if it was a file.

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