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

[yyyc186]

On Apr 6, 1:47 pm, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
> Bob Koehler schrieb:
>
> >    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.
>

Wow.....we gotta fix what is wrong with colleges today.

Blocking is irrelivant.  The concept of a record integrated into the
OS kernel is mandatory.  You don't lock a block...unless your MS
trying to market your single user Access data file system as a multi-
user database.

See prevoius message about lock manager, distributed lock manager,
distributed transaction manager, and clustering.