[X-Unix] /dev basics

[~flipper]

Kuestner, Bjoern wrote:

>
>  > <http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/2597/print>
>
>The problem here is that this is relevant for Linux. John's post implied (at
>least for me, and I might have read this wrong) that OS X's /dev is handled
>differently.
>
>Bjorn

Why do you think it is so different? Have you cd'd to /dev? It's 
exactly what you'll see in most garden variety Unix installs: 
terminal configs, other device files, bluetooth (if you have a 
bluretooth-enabled machine, disk drivers for all the mounts, random, 
urandom... etc, etc

brian s