[Info-vax] VSI roadmap

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Wed Aug 23 08:28:02 EDT 2023


On 2023-08-22, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 8/21/2023 8:10 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-08-18, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> Just not anywhere as nice with RMS and "external to the database" record
>>> definitions.
>> 
>> RMS was clearly designed by people who thought punched cards were cool...
>
> Not sure what aspect of RMS that make you say that.
>

That the record is a series of opaque bytes, instead of structured
fields with the knowledge about the fields built into RMS itself.

Simon.

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