[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

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On Sun, 2024-01-07 at 01:04 +0000, Dan Cross wrote:
> > I see environment variables being closer to VMS symbols than to
> > VMS logicals.
> > 
> > But just closer not identical.
> 
> Eh.  Emulation of logical names would likely be done by
> maintaining and consulting symbol tables in the DCL "shell" (or
> whatever emulated DCL in this frankenstein "VMS on Linux"
> monstronsity) for user mode logicals and a symbol table
> maintained in a region of shared memory owned by some DSO-like
> shared object for the others.
> 
> The idea of using some service that one communicates with via
> dbus to emulate logical names is absurd.

I'd sqlite3 it. But I wouldn't. We have x64_86 VMS now. 
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