[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-07-20, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 8:20:43?AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> You have missed what I am saying above, so I may have been too subtle. 
>> Let me reword it: If VMS didn't have any Macro-32 or Bliss code in it, 
>> and didn't need to support them as application level programming languages, 
>> VMS would look much more internally like any another OS written in C does, 
>> and the port would have been completed years ago. 
> Ah, so you are commenting on the choices made in 1977.  C wasn't on the menu
> of implementation languages.
>

Unix had been around for several years by then.

Other operating systems had been written in various higher-level languages
before that.

It really is a pity that VMS didn't come along several years later
when attitudes to writing full systems in assembly language had
well and truly changed.

Simon.

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