[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-07-18, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 7/18/2023 8:21 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-07-17, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> On 7/17/2023 9:29 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>
>>>> Simple is good - complex is bad.
>>>
>>> I'm a firm believer in KISS ...
>> 
>> Then you should strongly prefer Unix over VMS... :-)
>
> I am not so sure about that.
>
> VMS is probably one of the smallest and leanest commercial
> OS'es today.
>
> It may be more a result of lack of investment for 20 years
> than a deliberate strategy. And we we miss a lot of things.
> But still small code base and small API.
>

How does that API compare to the APIs available on Unix (especially
Linux) when you want to write an application (especially one with
modern requirements) ?

VMS had a world-leading API 20-30 years ago, but things (and expectations)
have moved on since then.

Simon.

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