2026-04-20 22:24 UTC
@pleia2@floss.social Fun! Reminds of our student computer group as an undergrad in the early 80s with a new VAX/VMS system. One of our stated goals was to defeat RMS (Record Management System), which was, roughly speaking, the file I/O system for VMS. Calls routinely had 13 parameters or more. File were structured in many ways, none of them relevant to us.
Unsurprisingly we mostly programmed in C using libc under a Unix V7 emulation layer written by Interactive Systems.
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@oddhack@mstdn.social 2026-04-21 02:03
@pleia2@floss.social huh, I see sometime in the intervening decades they seem to have refactored so the RMS calls only take a couple of parameters, but the parameters are structures with 20-25 members.