On 09/05/2016 11:05 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote:
> On 9/5/2016 12:49 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
>> If the computing world only ever consisted of "files" each consisting of
>> one (and only one) stream of sequential data, with no other
>> attributes or
>> metadata, then many utilities, including FTP, would be a lot easier to
>> operate. We don't live in such a world.
>
> The other platforms live in a byte-stream world. We're the outliers...
>
True, but isn't that difference -- the recognition of the importance of
optimizing I/O performance by allowing control of physical block size as
appropriate for the target device, doing block-oriented I/O, and
providing ease of manipulating logical records -- one of the main
reasons IBM mainframes and Operating systems were able to routinely
handle humongous data files decades before those byte-stream-oriented
systems?
Joel C. Ewing
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Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected]
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