[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[David Jones]

On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 6:48:05 PM UTC-4, gah4 wrote:
> I remember stories back to when VAX was new, so 11/780 days, 
> the POLYD was slower than separate multiply/add instructions. 
> 
> I never looked at actual times, and don't know at all for later processors.

There was also the case of the backup program being sped up by replacing
 the CRC instruction with a routine coded with simpler instructions. This
improvement affected a lot a shops.