[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Bob Koehler]

In article <k12pai$fji$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> On 2012-08-22 13:19:19 +0000, Bob Koehler said:
> 
>> In article <k10u46$iuh$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman 
>> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>> 
>>> o RMS files don't defragment themselves, and indexed files don't pack
>>> old records.  The programmer or the end-user has to deal with that mess.
>> 
>>    I've got lots of file systems that don't defrag themselves.
> 
> So we should accept old limits?  Or should I get off your lawn?  :-)

   No.  But I was following a byte-streams-are-better thread, and none
   of your issues with what RMS doesn't provide are solved by byte stream
   file systems.

> 
> And these days, I find myself writing (more) code when RMS is involved.

   I find myself writing code to deal with four OS that don't have an
   RMS, access files on disk shares, and don't use the same byte stream
   conventions.