[Info-vax] Oracle Database vs Oracle/Rdb

[Neil Rieck]

On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 7:56:05 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 6/24/2019 8:45 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> > In article <37c79af8-f631-4847-b4e8-7158fdba1a00 at googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
> >> That may not be possible depending upon how the customer is using Oracle-RD=
> >> B. Recall that RDB was developed by DEC as a successor to RMS. Certain DEC =
> >> languages, like COBOL and BASIC, have builtin support for RMS while other D=
> >> EC languages provide indirect RMS support via the linker.
> > 
> >     You want to be more specific about that claim?
> 
> Many VMS languages have language level support for
> index-sequential files (which is often what is meant
> by RMS even though practically any file access is
> via RMS). Definitely Pascal and Cobol. And likely
> also Basic. But not C.
> 
> Any VMS language can use RMS SYS$ calls to access
> index-sequential files. Including C. Which may be
> what the "linking" was meant to say.
> 
> Arne

Question: I did not think that Pascal had builtin RMS support (as in directly opening/reading INDEXED files without resorting to system calls). At least this was the case back when I last used VAX Pascal. Was builtin RMS support added to Pascal during the Alpha days -or- are we using different definitions for "builtin"?

Neil