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  • From: John Cowan <johnwcowan@g...>
  • To: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:32:40 -0500


On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...> wrote:

Do I remember that Digital's VMS OS didn't have text files, only records?

Sort of.  Original VMS had a block-structured file system on top of which the records were layered.  However, it supported both fixed and variable-length records, as well as sequential, random, and indexed access (essentially cloned from IBM's VSAM).  Variable-length sequential records were the moral equivalent of text files.

Later on, stream organization was added to support C and C++ programming. 

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