[Info-vax] Search for folders

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at nz.invalid
Sat Jan 27 20:48:40 EST 2024


On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:30:48 -0500, bill wrote:

> On 1/27/2024 3:05 PM, Fred. Zwarts wrote:
>
>> Yes, PDP-11 running RSX. Each user had a user id and group id and one
>> (non-hierarchical) directory of the form [GID, UID].
>> VMS version 1 was still using a lot of RSX programs, so it used this
>> form for compatibility.
>> 
>> 
> RSTS had  the same thing.

In RSTS/E they were decimal.

Also I think VMS inherited some odd conventions from RSX-11. Like why did 
LOGINOUT processes always start running under UIC [10,40]?



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