[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[ChrisQ]

On 05/30/12 18:18, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> JF Mezei<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca>  wrote:
>> Neil Rieck wrote:
>
>>> be the explanation for why many C programers today are unable to wrap
>>> their brains around record processing (most always want to open a file
>>> with "fopen()" then produce stream i/o)
>
>> or just read the whole file in memory instead of only reading the
>> records they need.
>
> I have seen that done in just about every language.
>
> As memory gets bigger, more and more will do it, as they can
> get away with it longer.
>
> -- glen

There's probably enough memory in many machines to do that now, but a more
portable way might be to write a vms file system layer as a shared library
on top of a unix or other file system.

What's needed is to implement the *functionality*, not produce a clone...

Regards,

Chris