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

[Michael Kraemer]

yyyc186 schrieb:
> 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.
> 

Records and blocks predate VMS.