From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 19:43:38 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] File-as-record (was: Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie!) In-Reply-To: <20170909013034.GA42338@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20170908210450.C0FA618C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20170908210927.GB24413@DD0DDC435AC34EA8A55ABC3A9753F2FB> <1504919790.59b340ee1620c@www.paradise.net.nz> <20170909013034.GA42338@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 7:30 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 9 September 2017 at 13:16:30 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: > > 'fraid so. The Unix directory structure and the correlating > > free-form file competed with the file-as- record-structure and > > directory-as-record-structure in the seventies and eighties. The > > competition had finished by the nineties, and hardly anybody > > remembers it now. > > Sorry, I don't understand this. Can you give an example of > file-as-record and directory-as-record? Some of it suggests MVS, but > not quite. > See VMS's RMS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_Management_Services for a representative competitor. Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: