[Info-vax] VSI roadmap

[Dave Froble]

On 8/24/2023 5:57 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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
>

RMS keys are defined as locations in a data record.  Not sure I'd define that as 
"information about fields".  As far as I know, RMS (other than key definitions) 
knows nothing about data fields/columns/whatever.

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