[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Dave Froble]

On 7/18/2023 1:13 PM, Arne Vajhøj 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.
>
> I am pretty sure that if VMS kernel had most Macro-32 and
> Bliss code rewritten to C, then VMS kernel would be
> smaller than just systemd. :-)
>
> Arne

I have to wonder why you think re-writing in C would be "smaller" (whatever that 
is) than what's there today?


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