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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <49DD4688.6EF7C2 at spam.comcast.net>,
	David J Dachtera <djesys.no at spam.comcast.net> writes:
> 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.

I did look past the trees (records) and saw the whole forest.  And it is
composed entirely of bytes.  While inefficient a web server could just as
easily send every byte in a packet all by itself.  There is nothing about
web traffic, coming or going, that requires more than a stream of bytes.
It is the application that may require some structure and that structure
is overlayed on a stream of bytes.

Try another example.  :-)

bill

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