[TUHS] Fwd: Choice of Unix for 11/03 and 11/23+ Systems

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 6:55 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Oct 2020, Paul Riley wrote:
>
> > Mini-Unix has removed 'raw' devices (not sure why, probably seemed
> > un-needed),
>
> If it's relevant FreeBSD hasn't had raw devices for ages (not needed?);


No longer needed. Phk removed the need for different types of devices for
disks as part of the geom work. It required, though, that unaligned I/O on
the block device worked...

I
> don't know about Penguin/OS because my Debian box is off the air right
> now (and my Ubuntu box's video is beyond repair).
>

Last I checked, linux still had both.

Warner

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