[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[David Jones]

On Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 1:29:57 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> The RMS API is centered around FAB and RAB blocks. 
> 
> But that concept is not Macro-32 centric at all. They are just 
> records/structs. That is common in all procedural languages 
> including Pascal, C, Cobol etc.. 
> 
> In the last 30 years they would have been made classes with 
> private fields and public accessor methods (C++, Java, C# etc.). 
> But still basically the same concept. 
> 

The RMS system services take 3 arguments, 2 of them are optional AST routines.
You'd want to re-evaluate whether you stick with ASTs, provide some other
synchronization object (e.g. completion queues), or do away with asynchronous
operation altogether.