[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Fri Jul 28 10:14:50 EDT 2023


On 2023-07-28 01:13, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/27/2023 1:08 PM, bill wrote:
>> On 7/27/2023 8:46 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> On 2023-07-27 02:05, bill wrote:
>>>> But now I have to wonder why they didn't just continue development of
>>>> the 10 and 20.
>>>
>>> Do you really want to open up that wound again? :-D
>>
>> I would love to see what the performance would be for any of these
>> processors made with today's tech.  I think even without growing
>> memory size they would be more than adequate and probably a lot
>> better than some of the Windows Servers running applications today.
> 
> Joke question: when the 10 would need to go to the next level
> would it have moved from 36 bit to 72 bit?
> 
> :-)

Most probably yes. I seem to remember that FP was already using 72 bits. 
Would have been a natural step.

   Johnny




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