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In this chapter I will talk about program input/output. As with everything else on the Lisp Machine, I/O has been made as generic as possible. This means that:
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I/O is as device-independent as possible; the programmer need not know in advance what kind of device is actually the source of its input or the destination of its output; and
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File I/O is as system-independent as possible; if the user wants to use files on a Lisp Machine, or a VAX running VMS, or a machine running Unix, the programmer doesn’t need to know in advance which system will actually be used.
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Bromley, H., Lamson, R. (1987). Streams and Files. In: LISP Lore: A Guide to Programming the LISP Machine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1991-7_8
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