p...@voltage.com (Phil Smith) writes: > Indeed. I'd put it more strongly: Case sensitivity for *IX filesystems > offers NO benefit that anyone has ever been able to articulate to > me. If you ask a *IX person, they act like it's just "obviously" A > Good Thing, but can never express why. And if you ask them if they've > ever created /something/abc and /something/Abc or any of the other > possible values, they say "No". > > I think Windows got this one right. And a decade of asking for a > counter-argument has failed to produce anything useful. > > (Oddly, the one quasi-counter-argument is CMS, where you have to work > at it to create/use a file with lowercase in the fileid-but that's a > different kettle of hamsters, since it's more a byproduct of an > historical mistake than a deliberate feature, and not the same at all > as *IX.) > --
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#43 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#45 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all note that some of the people from 7094/CTSS went to the science center on the 4th flr and did virtual machines ... initially cp40/cms on a 360/40 that had special hardware changes that implemented virtual memory ... it later morphs into cp67/cms ... when 360/67 with virtual memory standard comes available ... later morphs into vm370/cms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS other from 7094/CTSS go to the 5th flr and do MULTICS. Lore is some of the AT&T people that had gone to work on MULTICS ... return and do simplified version as UNIX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MULTICS from above: The design and features of Multics greatly influenced the Unix operating system, which was originally written by two ex-programmers from the older project, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Superficial influence of Multics on Unix is evident in many areas, including the naming of commands (such as "ls" to "list segments" or files). But the internal design philosophy was quite different, focusing on keeping the system small and simple, and so correcting some deficiencies of Multics because of its high resource demands on the limited computer hardware of the time. The name Unix (originally Unics) is itself a pun on Multics. The U in Unix is rumored to stand for uniplexed as opposed to the multiplexed of Multics, further underscoring the designers' rejections of Multics' complexity in favor of a more straightforward and workable approach for smaller computers. (Garfinkel and Abelson [10] cite an alternative origin: Peter Neumann at Bell Labs, watching a demonstration of the prototype, suggested the name/pun UNICS (pronounced "Eunuchs"), as a "castrated Multics".) ... snip ... I world periodically kid around with people on the 5th flr about the total number multics installations versus vm370/cms. i said that it wasn't fair to compare with the total number of vm370/cms installations or even the total number of internal corporate vm370/cms installations ... but one of my hobbies was producing production systems for internal datacenters ... and would just compare the number of vm370/cms systems I supported as larger than the total number of Multics systems. and as for ms/dos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS before ms/dos there was seattle computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products and before seattle computer there was cp/m http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M and before cp/m, kildall worked on cp67/cms at npg school (gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine) http://web.archive.org/web/20071011100440/http://www.khet.net/gmc/docs/museum/en_cpmName.html npg reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Postgraduate_School -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
