[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Dave Froble]

On 3/14/2023 9:08 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
>

Understand, I think unsigned numbers would be very useful.  I wish Basic support 
such.  But my point is, they are not so "natural" to humans, and after all, 
humans are the users of computers.  So development followed what people do.

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