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- From: mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney)
- Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:39:07 GMT
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- In article <C02wyJ.56s@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney) writes:
- >Okay, so the "file system" books cover RMS. That means that they're not
- >file system books, and that they've been misnamed. No, I'm not joking.
- >
- >RMS: RECORD Managment (manglement) Services. Perhaps it takes a genious to
- >see that this is a set of Services to Manage Records. A record is not a file,
- >but instead a part of a file. File management is handled via $QIO calls.
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- Before I getted flamed on this, let me add something else. RMS *does*
- provide calls that allow for file management ($create, $rename, $delete, etc.).
- That's nice, but it doesn't mean it's the file system.
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- If you can't grok this concept, consider this: the VAX C RTL also provides
- calls (creat, delete, rename, etc.). Would you call it the file system?
- Didn't think so...
-
- Darrin
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