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

[David J Dachtera]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
> 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. 

...and how are those bytes organized? (Yes, Virginia, there *IS* a
structure!)

Try again.

D.J.D.