Why is "Everything is a file" unique to the Unix operating systems?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/364152/w...

Answer 2 links:
[Plan 9 from Bell Labs]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from...
[NeXT]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
[FreeBSD]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD

Answer 3 links:
[ioctl()]: http://linux.die.net/man/2/ioctl
[console_ioctl(4)]: http://linux.die.net/man/4/console_ioctl

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