[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Bob Koehler]

In article <50352a6e$0$57670$c3e8da3$c8b7d2e6 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> With Unix, it is all or nothing.  You either deal with a sequential file
> which you read into memory and fully rewrite to disk whenever a change
> is made, or you go with an SQL based system.

   Ever use Fortran on UNIX?  In Fortran you can rewrite records.  If
   the OS doesn't support it, then the Fortran library must.

   However, I would not be surprized to see this limited in some way,
   such as only supporting Fortran fixed length records.

   I was surprized to see this on IBM OS/360 limited to only variable
   length records.  Which is nice to have, since it's the more difficult 
   case, but meant we had to write some access routines to do it with fixed 
   length records.

   When we ported that code to VMS, the access routines were stubbed
   with little routines doing Fortran I/O.