[Info-vax] Oracle Database vs Oracle/Rdb

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/25/2019 12:36 PM, Neil Rieck wrote:
> 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.

> 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"?

It has.

And has had since forever.

And a in very very nice way.

AEP or @OP a decade or two before those terms was invented.

Arne