[Info-vax] Pathworks or one of its descendants on x86

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/21/2018 8:57 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2018-02-21 kl. 05:40, skrev terry-groups at glaver.org:
>> On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 7:40:05 AM UTC-5, Kerry Main wrote:
>>> New OpenVMS file system notes: 
>>> <http://www.hp-connect.se/SIG/New_File_System_VMS_Boot%20Camp_2016.pdf>
>>
>> Those slides say "Fully compatible API − 99% of applications run without
>> modification" which I interpret as meaning RMS or RMS emulation. If that
>> is the case, any file-serving to PC clients is going to need to do the
>> same "if it isn't fixed-512, read the file a record at a time and munge
>> the record attributes" that PATHWORKS did before sending it to a PC
>> client. I think I'll stick with my "an inefficient choice for anything
>> other than accessing files that must reside on the VMS system" comment
>> until convinced otherwise.
> 
> I have never seen file serving from VMS as anything but a convienient
> way of sharing files that was either created on VMS, or was needed
> by something on the VMS system. For a general "file server", there
> was easier solutions.
> 
> Was using VMS for file sharing/serving since PCSA 1.2 or 2.0 (I think).

Same here. PathWorks was pretty cool late 80's early 90's. Long time ago.

The ability to move files between VMS and PC's in a transparent
way is very convenient and I do think such a feature has some
users.

But I think that the fraction of these users where performance
is important would be very small.

Arne