[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Bob Koehler]

In article <XMsZr.2845$r37.261 at fx24.am4>, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com> writes:
> 
> Sigh, your still missing the point. If I do a file open and read from
> unix, I get the whole file as a stream of bytes loaded into memory.

   If I open a file on UNIX in Fortran, it looks like a collection
   of records if I used record access, or a stream of bytes if I
   use byte stream access.

   If I open a file on VMS in C, C++, Java, ..., it looks like a
   stream of bytes.  Even if the file structure isn't.

   If I open a the same file on VMS in Fortran, Ada, ..., it looks like a
   collection of records.

   It didn't matter what the file organization actually was.  It didn't
   matter so much what the OS was.  It matters how the HLL presents it.

   But on UNIX and Windows, I have to deal with the differences in meta
   data.