[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS
Johnny Billquist
bqt at softjar.se
Fri May 25 11:25:11 EDT 2012
On 2012-05-25 00:27, 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 :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Nice try as well, but if you read all I wrote, this wasn't done in VMS
first... :-)
Johnny
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