From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] Re; Mach for i486 / Mt Xinu or other
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:25:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201702212025.v1LKPhRp021592@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
> 2) **Most** Operating systems do not support /dev/* based access to SCSI.
> This includes a POSIX certified system like Mac OS X.
>
> 3) **Most** Operating systems do not even support a file descriptor based
> interface to SCSI commands.
> This includes a POSIX certified system like Mac OS X.
Had Ken thought that way, Unix's universal byte-addressable file format
would never have happened; this mailing list would not exist; and we
all might still be fluent in dialects of JCL. dd was sufficient glue
to bridge the gap between Unix and **Most** Operating Systems.
Meanwhile everyday use of Unix was freed from the majority's folly.
Doug
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2017-02-21 20:25 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2017-02-21 23:44 ` Joerg Schilling
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