[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[ChrisQ]

On 08/21/12 14:01, Bob Koehler wrote:

>
>     Hack, cough, spat, ...

Well, nothing's perfect Bob :-).

>
>     If so, then why didn't it get a decent debugger until the IDEs came
>     out, why is it still so hard to get file protections set right, and
>     how come I have to roll my own RMS every time?
>

Most of the code developed here is cross compiled for elsewhere, so never
need debug facilities native and in any case debuggers tend to be overrated
and often only needed to bandaid sloppy development procedures.

As for RMS, a file system is to store bytes and any imposed structure on
the data should be layered on elsewhere. So yes, you will have to write it
yourself :-)...

Regards,

Chris