[Info-vax] RMS record metadata, was: Re: Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-22 12:27:56 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> On 2016-06-21, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2016-06-21 14:16:50 +0000, lawrencedo99 at gmail.com said:
>> 
>>> Of these, none is worth keeping. Except maybe that last one.
>> 
>> Your list missed one: if RMS is ripped out, then large chunks of  
>> OpenVMS itself and more than a little third-party and end-user code  
>> either gets rewritten. or an RMS analog layer gets written.  That  
>> latter approach and that latter effort goes nowhere near forward  
>> progress, either.  There are a lot of RMS system service calls around  
>> in VSI and third-party and end-user source code, and a lot of source 
>> code with in-built RMS-based assumptions.
> 
> But OTOH, if you wanted to build something which looked like VMS but 
> without maintaining strict VMS compatibility, RMS as it currently 
> stands is something which would be ripped out with a vengeance.

>From that same message:

>> Would I consider tossing RMS and its APIs out the airlock, if starting 
>> over with a wholly new NuVMS operating system?   Certainly.


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