[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[John Dallman]

In article <u9n69c$r61o$1 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
wrote:

> There are two very different questions:
> 
> #1: Did DEC's decisions in 1977 make sense given 1977 knowledge?
> 
> I believe the answer to #1 is YES. Their decisions was similar to 
> how most OS was designed at the time.

The decisions in 1977 were defensible, but not forward-looking. Operating
systems written in high-level languages already existed, and
microprocessor-based machines offered a possibility of computers becoming
much cheaper. VAX/VMS solved the problems of the recent past, quite well,
but did not anticipate the future. 

John