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[Matthew Flaschen]

Mario Andes wrote:
> But as their structure is based on modules they are much more flexible.

That statement is so vague it is meaningless.

> The whole philosophy of unix is its simple structure. Everything is represented 
> by files: memory,

Memory is not ordinarily represented as files.  Files can be represented
as memory.
> As system memory isn't infinite a swap mechanism always is used to make it possible 
> to handle files of every size.

Obviously, that's not true either.  swap are very small compared to files.

> Hard disks are large files too.

True...

> That's to say the only thing a unix system can do excellently is to handle files.

I certainly hope not.

Matt Flaschen