[Info-vax] VSI roadmap

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-08-23 14:28, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

I don't even understand what you said here.
There is *some* information about fields in RMS, but it's partial.
If you want to talk about opaque stream of bytes, I would say "aha - you 
are talking about Unix view of a file".

   Johnny