[Info-vax] VMS internals design, was: Re: BASIC and AST routines

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-11-26, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <snrbgf$7td$3 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>
>>Have you ever looked inside the Linux internals to see how clean
>>they are compared to VMS internals ?
>
> Statement such as yours are purely unfounded without proofs.  What is
> so *unclean* in the VMS internals?  I've never seen a book written as
> well as the OpenVMS Internal and Data Structures Manual for Linux.  I
> demand a proof but not before you answer my question that you have so
> completely ignored or skirted around since the inception of this long
> thread.
>

Since I have answered your question, it's time for me to ask one in
return.

If the VMS internals are as clean as you say, then how can a person easily
and cleanly add a new filesystem to VMS with the same comparable effort
as if they were adding one to Linux or another Unix variant that supports
modular filesystems ?

That is not an academic question BTW, Brian.

After the port is finally completed, what is desperately needed is a
brand new filesystem for VMS that matches the hardware of today and the
requirements of today. VSI have tried this twice now, and have abandoned
both efforts (at least for now).

Simon.

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