[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Dave Froble]

On 7/18/2023 1:55 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
>

First, define reasonably well "secure network application".

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