[Simh] rms (no, not the FSFguy)

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-12-17 21:17, dave porter wrote:
> Speaking as a long-time programmer on VMS, RMS VAR-CR wasn't half-bad for
> programs that expected to be doing line-oriented I/O.  As long as you were
> programming within some sort of "conventional" paradigm, all was fairly
> rosy.  Well, as long as you abhorred abominations like Fortran carriage 
> control.
> It got very confusing when we admitted that there were other operating
> systems and there were programming languages that were not called
> MACRO or BLISS.

Works fine in most languages. But it of course, it depends on what you 
want to do. Some things are easier, and some things gets harder.

And even Unix gave up on the idea of having everything appear as a 
stream of bytes in some situations. It became horribly obvious it was a 
bad idea for tapes, and noone ever uses the stream of bytes capability 
for tapes, even though Unix can...

   Johnny

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