[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-07-24, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 7/24/2023 8:33 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> VSI are having to expend serious engineering effort on trying to
>> duplicate the behaviour of an assembly language (with all its built-in
>> idioms) on a completely different architecture.
>>
>> This is simply a non-issue on operating systems where the lowest
>> supported language is C instead of assembly language. The stuff John
>> is having to deal with is just an implementation detail in the backend
>> code generator on Linux and elsewhere that is hidden from the source code.
>>
>> In Macro-32 however, it's directly visible in the source code and you have
>> to go to great efforts to duplicate that behaviour on other architectures.
>>
>> On Linux, and other operating systems written in C or above, that's an
>> issue you simply don't have to worry about.
>>
>
> Ok, how about this perspective?
>
> If x86 VMS does not support existing VMS applications, then what's the point of 
> x86 VMS?  So, yeah, some tough work, but, it supports the customers.
>
> Easy for Simon to tell users to re-write their applications.  It's not his time 
> and money.
>

We are not talking about people rewriting their applications.

We are talking about structural and design issues within VMS that is
making this porting process a lot more involved than it should be.

Simon.

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