[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Dave Froble]

On 8/23/2023 4:40 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/23/2023 2:44 AM, John Dallman wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It is difficult to anticipate the future.
>
> They made some choices that looked OK at the time.

Back in the day we had a saying.

Buy the computer you need now.  If you wait for the next greatest thing, you'll 
never get a new computer.

Still good advice.

As for anticipating the future, should all auto manufacturers plan now for 
counter-grav?  That's about the same as some of the comments I've read here.

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