Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Aug 31 01:54:57 EDT 2004

• Previous message (by thread): Xah Lee's Unixism
• Next message (by thread): Xah Lee's Unixism
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

---

Andre Majorel wrote:
> If by unixism, you mean any operating system that has a
> hierarchical filesystem and byte stream files, yes. But that
> would include quite a few other non-Unix operating systems,
> including Mac OS 9, Prologue and probably everything else this
> side of CP/M (DOS 1.x shall be deemed to be CP/M).

CP/M files weren't quite exactly streams of bytes. They
were more like streams of 128-byte blocks (hence the
kludge of using control-Z to mark the end of a text
file).

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg

---

• Previous message (by thread): Xah Lee's Unixism
• Next message (by thread): Xah Lee's Unixism
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

---

More information about the Python-list mailing list