[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select

[Bob Koehler]

In article <U3XDz.520650$oJ4.400071 at fx23.ams1>, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> writes:
> 
> Bob didn't mention MAC OS. MACs also had FAL, and it was a beautiful 
> implementation. If you copied a file from MAC to MAC (using your VMS 
> system for the command), the complete file would be transferred, 
> resource fork + data fork. If you copied a file to your VMS system, only 
> the data fork would be copied, the resource fork was useless for VMS.

   Well, we had Macs, and we have Pathworks for Macs, but I only listed
   DECnet implementations that I myself had used and we didn't have
   DECnet on those Macs.

   The wonderfull thing with FAL was that it sits on DNA, which
   understands RMS on VMS, RMS and FCS on RSX, whatever they call it
   on MVS, and byte streams on all those other things.  Somebody really
   did good work on DNA.