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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <grdimo$dh0$00$1 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> 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.

   What's wrong with having the right tool for the job?  Sometimes a
   stream of bytes is the right tool, sometimes it's not.  Generally
   adding data structures and organization helps solve a problem.

   Which means having records and blocks, which are NOT in any way tied
   to the low level storage, is a good option, and an enhancement of the
   file system, not a relic.

   Only having one way to do things is a relic of the late 1960's.