On 13 Sep 2014, at 9:16pm, Howard Chu <h...@symas.com> wrote:

> Scott Robison wrote:
> 
>> At the
>> very least (and I suspect more) Commodore 8-bit DOS (which was embedded
>> within a smart drive with its very own dedicated CPU & RAM) supported
>> (essentially) sequential byte stream files (no random seeking for these!)
>> and random access record oriented files (where the record size was set at
>> file creation time). Man were those a pain in the backside to use.
> 
> Now imagine writing an ftp client (or server) for one of these. I wrote both 
> for an IBM mainframe, way back when. 

You could have just used KERMIT.  Wait ... did KERMIT run on IBM mainframes ?

<google>

Hahahaha of course it did.

Simon.
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