ddb@mrvax.DEC (DAVID DYER-BENNET MRO1-2/L14 DTN 231-4076) (03/22/85)
NO NO NO!!! For the time after the last time (somebody else said this "for the last time" a while ago), RMS is NOT the lowest level file handler on VMS, it is NOT part of the kernel! RMS is a subroutine library that user programs call if they want to read RMS files. The lowest level file handling (implementation of Files-11 ODL-2) is in the f11acp process (on older versions of VMS) or implemented in the xqp code in the kernel (on newer versions of VMS). This code implements file naming and block IO. There are enough legitemate complaints about RMS! Let's not waste time on bogus ones. -- David Dyer-Bennet -- ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-mrvax!ddb
jlg@lanl.ARPA (03/25/85)
> NO NO NO!!! For the time after the last time (somebody else said this > "for the last time" a while ago), RMS is NOT the lowest level file > handler on VMS, it is NOT part of the kernel! RMS is a subroutine library > that user programs call if they want to read RMS files. The lowest level > file handling (implementation of Files-11 ODL-2) is in the f11acp process > (on older versions of VMS) or implemented in the xqp code in the kernel (on > newer versions of VMS). This code implements file naming and block IO. > > There are enough legitemate complaints about RMS! Let's not waste time > on bogus ones. > > -- David Dyer-Bennet > -- ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-mrvax!ddb YES YES YES!!!! Anything that is automatically invoked by the language processor that a user has access to is below the level of that language's primitives! From a user perspective RMS is at the lowest level! Ever try to read a formatted file through a QIO call!?! There are lots of legitimate complaints about RMS - and this is one of them. J. Giles