From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tih@hamartun.priv.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2017 19:24:40 +0200 Subject: Line Terminators in Text Files [ In-Reply-To: (Paul Winalski's message of "Mon, 4 Sep 2017 13:29:59 -0400") References: Message-ID: Paul Winalski writes: > RMS finally got a true stream mode interface circa VAX/VMS version 5, > three releases after the DEC C compiler was first released. I ported C-TeX to VAX/VMS 5, using the straight stream mode for I/O, and was annoyed by how slow it was. I ended up writing my own glue to have it write binary RMS files in 512 byte blocks instead, and the speed increase was very gratifying. We're talking several times faster. I remember how this made our VAX 780 able to process TeX files at just about the same speed as my 12MhZ 286 PC, when I was alone on the system at night. Then I discovered it did it just as fast during the day, with about a hundred other users on the machine. :) -tih -- Most people who graduate with CS degrees don't understand the significance of Lisp. Lisp is the most important idea in computer science. --Alan Kay