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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-04-10 17:34, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
> (snip, I wrote)
>>> 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.
>
>> FILES-11 is a rather generic term. ODS is the more stringent definition.
>> But they are sometimes used rather interchangeably.
>
>> Both VMS and RSX implements FILES-11. However, RSX only do ODS-1 (well,
>> sortof), while VMS on VAXen could understand ODS-1 but preferred ODS-2,
>> and Alpha and Itanium deal with ODS-2 or ODS-5.
>
> But which ones are used on floppy disks. (Especially 25 years ago.)

Well, in RSX, the answer is easy... :-)
Hello ODS-1.

	Johnny

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