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

[David J Dachtera]

Michael Kraemer 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.

Well, no, not really. Every "row" from a table that is retrieved froma
database constitutes a "record". Every POST operation in HTTP returns a
"record", complex as it may be.

Gotta look past the trees to see the forest.

D.J.D.