[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS
Richard B. Gilbert
rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Fri May 25 09:07:40 EDT 2012
On 5/25/2012 3:27 AM, 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 :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Just to set the record straight:
Dice is plural. Die is singular. The engineers rolled a die!
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