[Info-vax] RMS and SSIO (again)

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In article <srhv8g$td8$5 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2022-01-08, Hein RMS van den Heuvel <heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 7:07:58 PM UTC-5, tink... at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> One if the things that a lot of users of VMS have liked years is the focus on quality engineering looking at the whole OpenVMS environment, and not a knee jerk response to some particular issue. 
>>
>> Steam IO  a knee-jerk reaction? Ha! It's been looked at, worked on for 20+ years.
>>
>
>There are some people who are just unwilling to accept that just because
>that's how something was done 30 years ago, it doesn't mean that's how it
>should be done these days in light of general advancements in technology.
>
>>> NB in this case the correct solution was FIX CRTL to use RMS correctly. 
>>
>> Nonsense. The C-RTL folks didn't live/work in a vacuum. They know/knew how to use RMS, they know about the FAB$C_UDF hackery.
>> They know (and implemented) how NOT to use (buffered) RMS and switch to SYS$READ/SYS$WRITE  to avoid excessive going in an out of EXEC mode with all the probing for simple actions.
>>
>
>Switching between Executive and User modes is not free, especially when
>you are emulating Executive mode. :-)

Huh?

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