I think what I was getting at was that memory sort of sits in-between.
My instructions are executed directly on the cpu. My file reads and writes directly translated from a stream of bytes to block instructions by code in the kernel.
Memory is a wierd in-between place, or maybe a 3rd option, since the kernel has to run a bunch of code on my behalf for me to use memory, sort of like the filesystem thing, but I'm using the direct hardware units afterward, sort of like instructions.
