[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Dave Froble]

On 10/9/2021 4:55 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-10-09 18:22:02 +0000, Arne Vajhj said:
>
>> On 10/9/2021 12:47 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>>
>>> RMS is a pretty good database, for its time.  Alas, its become rather
>>> more dated, with an API design that is complex and limiting, and in
>>> competitive terms RMS is badly feature-limited.
>>>
>>> If you need a key-value store and where the developer entirely owns
>>> the fields used within the punched cards, and where y'all can fit
>>> your files in 2 TiB (or bound volume sets, gag), RMS is still a fine
>>> choice.
>>
>> Hoff I think you are muddying the water here.
>>
>> This discussion has so far been about ORG:SEQ files.
>>
>> ORG:IDX files are a Key Value Store. But that is a totally different
>> topic.
>
>
> And here I was trying to explicitly not slag on RMS and its
> capabilities, as that'd solely serve provoke a torrent of folks quite
> reasonably pointing out that RMS is perfect for {app}.
>

Which it is, for those apps that need and use it's capabilities.  Well, 
maybe not "perfect".  There is that lack of definition of data fields 
that is so lacking in RMS.  What I believe you call "marshaling".

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