Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?

On 30.04.2025 03:53, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:17:50 +0300, Michael S wrote:
 

z/Os is alive and in good shape, but everybody knows that despite
the trademark it is not similar to Unix.

 
Just goes to show the worthlessness of the “Unix” name nowadays.

"UNIX" has a meaning that varied historically. But "Unix" is
commonly used as a name for the family of "UNIX-like" systems;
that's very useful since it allows to formulate commonalities
of this OS family.[*]

Janis

[*] As we've seen in the discussion of Unix file systems with
its basic structure of being built by sequences of octets[**]
and having two distinguished characters '\0' and '/'.

[**] BTW; does anyone know how e.g. the [historic] Borroughs
Unix systems with their 9 bit/36 bit architecture had their
file systems defined (w.r.t. the octet transfer syntax)?