[Info-vax] Orphaned processes on OpenVMS

[Wendell]

On May 23, 6:08 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <ir740v$3l... at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <b... at softjar.se> writes:
>
>    The only thing I've heard substantially influenced by UNIX, and also
>    attempted various ways in earlier DEC operating systems, was the
>    now ubiquitous nesting of directories inside directories in a file
>    hierarchy.  Even then, there were influences that lead VMS to a
>    per-disk hierarchy, rather than UNIX style mount points.

What were the perceived advantages of the per-disk hierarchy? The Unix
way seems obviously cleaner to me, but it seems that Darwin/OS X has
gone over to something more like VMS.