[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-KUhwpuvoZjLb at rikki.tavi.co.uk>,
> 	"Bob Eager" <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:22:48 UTC, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Note the percentage of fragmentation.  And, no, there are no de-frag
>>> programs for BSD Unix.  The question does come up from a windows weenie
>>> periodically in the BSD Newsgroups.
>> Remind me when DEC finally provided a defragmenter for VMS...! :-)
> 
> Don't know that they do.  Does the VMS filesystem fragment enough that
> it is necessary?  I have heard of people basicly "unloading" all of the
> VMS files to tape and reloading them to rmeove fragmentation, but I
> don't know that it is ever really necessary.  Now, with Windows/DOS.....
> 

I don't know if it's really necessary today.  In years gone by it was 
definitely necessary!