[Info-vax] OpenVMS on X86-64, whats next

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-07-20 07:59, Greg Tinkler wrote:
> I had previously posted about not using SSIO, rather fixing CRTL.  I then wrote from sample 32bit code as a proof of concept.  This code has now been altered use RAB64, i.e. cc/point=64.  Well that was a whole heap of fun, and underlined for me as to the importance of OpenVMS becoming a PROPER 64 bit OS.  It also made be realize that call RMS a record manage system is incorrect, it has 3 parts (read the doco) file handling, record management, RAW IO.  A much better name to avoid confusing the lx/Ux group is VMSIO.

Admittedly, my RSX knowledge is going to shine through here again. But 
actual file handling is, I believe, part of the Files-11 ACP (and XQP). 
Not RMS. Now, I don't know if you can do things totally dodging RMS 
under VMS. But in RSX, you certainly can. The QIO interface to deal with 
files is rather different than what RMS gives you, but this is where 
actual file processing takes place. RMS depends on that layer, and are 
just operating on files as such. The actual handling of the file is done 
outside of the file (things like managing protection, access, allocating 
blocks to files, or free them, and so on...).

   Johnny