[Info-vax] OS design, was: Re: [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

glen herrmannsfeldt gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Tue Apr 9 21:42:12 EDT 2013


Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2013-04-09 23:39:31 +0000, glen herrmannsfeldt said:
 
>> It would seem more useful to add a VMS file system to linux.
 
> There are already some examples of that software around.
> <http://decuslib.com/freeware/freewarev80/ods-2-reader-for-osf-1/>
> <http://decuslib.com/freeware/freewarev80/ods-2-reader/>
> <http://decuslib.com/freeware/freewarev80/ods2/>
 
> There's also vmsbackup, a tool to read BACKUP savesets.
> <http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/817>
 
> There are other tools and packages around.

I was going to say FILES-11, but it seems that the ODS
are variations of FILES-11. 

I was remembering writing floppy disks from VAX with
floppy disk drives. 

-- glen



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