[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 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.
>

I know that Arne, and that is _exactly_ my point.

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

It's a hell of a lot simpler to implement an application on Linux
than it is to implement that application on VMS.

Linux gives you functionality that is expected these days, but is
missing from VMS. That's what I am primarily referring to above.

For one example, I refer you to Stephen's often posted diatribe about
the effort involved in writing a secure network application on VMS
versus doing the same thing on Linux.

Simon.

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