[Info-vax] Unable to install freeware

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 7:56:41 PM UTC+12, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
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> In article <fc462738-e8a3-4814-affd-a4ed0a8b5ce4 at googlegroups.com>,
> Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: 
>>
>> Wonder why VMS fought kicking and screaming against bringing in the
>> idea of stream-formatted files, and still wants to insist that
>> everything be formatted as a record... 
> 
> Because, sometimes, it is better.

DEC, a company (at the time) run by engineers, had this fond belief that it was more “efficient”, even if it caused problems for human users.