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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:40:17 +0200
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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)?