[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-03-13, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> The way most/all people consider math, numbers can be either positive or 
> negative.  Yes, "natural".  Computer languages were developed using this 
> concept.  While unsigned numbers are useful, they aren't something people 
> normally consider.  Not sure where Simon is coming from with his assertions.
>

Much of the time you don't need signed integers and the problem you are
trying to solve is a better match with unsigned integers.

Let me put it this way: How many filesystems and file sizes and other
limits through computing history are half the maximum size they should
be because everyone used signed integers instead of unsigned integers ?

Simon.

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