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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: why "gmtime" but not "read" and "write"?
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Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 21:43:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 21:43:30 1987
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> The only C compiler I know of that didn't implement open, close, read, and
> write was the original BDS-C library on the Z-80....
> 
> Wanna come up with some examples?

I would be very surprised if the Bell Labs C compilers under OS/360 and 
whatever it was that ran on the big Honeywell mainframes -- these were among
the first C compilers other than the Unix ones -- implemented any of the
above.  The operating systems were just drastically unsuited to it.

It would be nice if people realized that systems like MSDOS are not fair
examples of un-Unix-like operating systems, because they in fact were
heavily influenced by Unix.
-- 
"There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry