[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

JF Mezei jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca
Fri May 25 03:27:17 EDT 2012


Johnny Billquist wrote:

> However, 6 characters also pack nicely into two 16-bit words, using 
> Radix 50...


Far more likely that the VMS engineers rolled a dice and it ended up on
"6" and so the node name length limit was set to 6 :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)



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