[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Michael Kraemer]

Bob Koehler schrieb:

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>  
>    UNIX is still a two-mode system which forks new processes every time
>    it turns around, and has no concept of files beyond stream of bytes.

And ? So what. Essentially it *is* a sack of bytes.
Records grouped in blocks (as in MVS and VMS) are relics
from the era of slow tape and disk drives which had to be accessed
at a rather low level.

>    That approach was typical of late 1960's OS design, and can be seen
>    in other OS, such as TOPS-10 and TOPS-20, which on the outside look
>    very different.
> 
>    Nothing that has happened to UNIX over all the years has changed that
>    basic late-1960's design.
>