[Info-vax] Oracle Database vs Oracle/Rdb

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/25/2019 1:35 PM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <8e15f0b2-a4a1-4a28-bad0-a687f093e096 at googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
>> Question: I did not think that Pascal had builtin RMS support (as in direct=
>> ly opening/reading INDEXED files without resorting to system calls). At lea=
>> st this was the case back when I last used VAX Pascal. Was builtin RMS supp=
>> ort added to Pascal during the Alpha days -or- are we using different defin=
>> itions for "builtin"?
> 
>     Keyed-indexed files are not all of RMS.  The Pascal I/O routines in
>     it's run-time libraries sit on top of RMS, whether they provide
>     direect support for keyed-indexed or not.

RMS is used in two meanings:
* a technically correct of everything going through RMS (which is almost 
all IO)
* a more loose convention of index-sequential files as opposed to
   relational database

Arne