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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: ancient OS history, ARM is sort of channeling the IBM 360
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:31:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:00:51 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> A line was anything up to CR/LF
> (and maybe form feed and other control characters) with the convention
> that you ignored null bytes.

This sounds like where RSTS/E got a similar convention. This way, the 
filesystem didn’t have to worry about allocations of partial sectors, and 
application programs didn’t need to worry about RMS-style record 
attributes to figure out where the end-of-file was.

But of course it only worked for plain-text files.