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 | | However, he found that the game was too slow on the GE machine and was costly, costing $75 per go in scarce computing time. |
 | | The file system hierarchy contained machine services and devices (such as printers, terminals, or disk drives), providing a superficially uniform interface, but at the expense of requiring indirect mechanisms such as ioctl and mode flags to access features of the hardware that did not fit the simple "stream of bytes" model. |
 | | A fundamental simplifying assumption of Unix was its focus on ASCII text for 100% of its I/O package and the assumption that the machine word was a multiple of 8 bits in size. |
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