Re: Life is a stream?

From	"MikeP" <mp011011@some.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: Life is a stream?
Date	2011-06-06 12:56 -0500
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Andy Champ wrote:
> On 01/06/2011 09:22, MikeP wrote:
>> Andy Champ wrote:
>>>
>>> Having read a few comments and rummaged in the old memory...
>>>
>>> Some mainframe systems have record based file systems, where the OS
>>> is responsible for mapping the records onto the disc sectors. There's 
>>> no stream of bytes involved - a read will give you a record
>>> (which admittedly is usually made of bytes!) direct from a sector,
>>> and there is no byte-wide stream involved at all.  This of course
>>> has advantages if your data is wider than bytes, and the system bus
>>> is too - there's never a need to perform the byte alignment.
>>>
>>
>> It is just data though, Hmm?
>>
>>
>
> Well, depends what you mean.

I'm not sure where I was going with that either.

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Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-05-30 22:25 -0500
  Re: Life is a stream? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-30 23:55 -0700
  Re: Life is a stream? Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-05-31 02:50 -0700
    Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-01 03:19 -0500
    Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-06 12:51 -0500
  Re: Life is a stream? Adam Skutt <askutt@gmail.com> - 2011-05-31 09:29 -0700
    Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-06 12:54 -0500
  Re: Life is a stream? Andy Champ <no.way@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-31 20:43 +0100
    Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-01 03:22 -0500
      Re: Life is a stream? Andy Champ <no.way@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-01 21:53 +0100
        Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-06 12:56 -0500

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