Re: ancient OS history, ARM is sort of channeling the IBM 360

In article <TFWeO.51161$J8n7.42222@fx12.iad>, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott
Lurndal) wrote:

Consider, however, that byte streams fit quite well into the
unix pipeline paradigm and that may have been the driving force
behind the non-record-based I/O facilities in Unix, and allowed
record-based or block-based file handling if the application
desired it ...

Don't forget that the original use case for Unix was document production,
where record-based i/o is not very useful.

John