[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Dave Froble]

On 8/24/2023 8:14 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-08-23, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>> It is difficult to anticipate the future.
>>
>> They made some choices that looked OK at the time.
>>
>> I suspect that it reflect the leadership.
>>
>> the engineering approach: let us choose something
>> that we are 99.9% sure to work fine
>>
>> the visionary approach: let us choose something
>> where there is 50% chance of huge success and
>> 50% chance of total failure
>>
>> Engineers are trained to build stuff that is guaranteed
>> to work.
>>
>
> And DEC had a very frustrating mix of being both not visionary and
> then doing something that was very visionary.
>
> First, they did the VMS design, which is most certainly not visionary,
> but then a few years later they gave us a cluster design that was
> literally a generation ahead of everyone else.
>
> They also gave us the aborted Mica/Prism architecture, which would have
> also been unique at the time. Oh, well.
>
> Simon.
>

Not sure what other people's definition of "visionary" might be.  For me, the 
DLM was very visionary.  Often copied.  That and IBM's Sysplex sort of led the 
way in this direction.

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