[Info-vax] Assembly languages

[Bob Eager]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 10:33:55 -0700, gah4 wrote:

> On Monday, April 11, 2022 at 5:51:25 AM UTC-7, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2022-04-11 13:05, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
> (snip)
> 
>> > Actually, every file on every computer is just a string of bytes.
>> > (or you could even say bits) Any additional formatting is just
>> > overlayed on top.
> 
>> That is obviously incorrect. Every disk used today is divided into
>> blocks. So that is what a file on a disk is, in the end. And that is
>> not the same as a string of bytes. The string of bytes abstraction is
>> implemented on top of this.
>> I'm surprised you don't know this.
> 
> Disk files on Unix-like systems and DOS/Windows are just a string of
> bytes.

And on a very few systems (mainly in the past) a file is always an array 
of bytes in virtual memory!


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