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Here’s something we thought we would never see: computing with just pipes, /dev/zero, and /dev/null. As a thought experiment, [Linus] imagined a null byte represented an electron. /dev/zero would have an infinite supply of electrons and /dev/null would make a wonderful positive power supply. With a very short program (named mosfet.c), [Linus] can use Linux pipes [...]

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