Re:AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (1982)
by dredmorbius on Saturday August 28, 2021 @01:10PM
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The context should hopefully be clear to most, but the "other operation systems" that are being referred to as complex, with fussy filesystems and poor inter-process control, would be IBM's mainframe operating system OS/360.
The direct call-out is the reference to The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks.
In Unix, file creation is as simple as '>'
In OS/360, there's a long set of JCL that is required.
(For some sense of what JCL is like, the much-derided 'dd' command is in fact a bit of OS/360 JCL that was migrated to Unix, largely in order to read and write from and to IBM-compatible tapes and punchcards.)
The direct call-out is the reference to The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks.
In Unix, file creation is as simple as '>'
In OS/360, there's a long set of JCL that is required.
(For some sense of what JCL is like, the much-derided 'dd' command is in fact a bit of OS/360 JCL that was migrated to Unix, largely in order to read and write from and to IBM-compatible tapes and punchcards.)