[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/18/2023 1:31 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

????

The third letter in KISS stands for simple not for feature-rich.

Linux as of today is definitely feature rich but it is not
simple.

Arne