[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[Roy Omond]

On 25/05/2012 08:27, JF Mezei wrote:
> 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 :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Micro$**t probably also rolled a die (note: singular) for the names of
their disk drives and it ended up a "1" ...