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Justifications and trade-offs of historical hardware and software designs, and their possible alternatives.

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What was the point of separating stdout and stderr?

You are thinking that all output is for human reading. For instance, take the Unix cpio command. It writes the archive to stdout, which is always redirected to a device or file. It writes the archiv …
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