[Info-vax] Modular VMS, was: Re: Prism/Pillar, was: Re: inertia or fundamentals about langages?

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In article <qcngg3$513$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
>On 5/29/19 9:19 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2019-05-29 23:41:15 +0000, Dave Froble said:
>> 
>>> On 5/29/2019 2:11 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>>>> The XQP cannot be extended by the end user so they can't plug in new 
>>>> filesystems, either in the kernel or within a process.
>>>
>>> Depends ....
>>>
>>>> You know the following, but for those who don't, take a look at the 
>>>> examples of what you can do in Unix-land:
>>>
>>> Not interested.
>> 
>> There's more than file systems that can be exposed this way.  What if 
>> you could connect to a database behind that?  Yeah, probably not a 
>> priority for many.  Makes a very interesting way to access a database or 
>> a version control system or such, and I've encountered at least one 
>> package that did just this; that presented the contents of a version 
>> control system as a file system: ClearCase, with what was referred to as 
>> a VOB or Virtual Object Base,  It was really quite slick, too.
>
>Microsoft has basically done an inside out version of that to git to
>make it able to handle the massive Windows codebase, which at 300GB
>claims to be the largest git repository in the world:
>
><https://vfsforgit.org>

Micro$oft has the largest userbase of gits too!

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