> On Mar 23, 2020, at 10:34 AM, Dan Gahlinger <dgahl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> I remember they opened the chassis a number of times to show off that bar,
> the part was indeed labelled "FUBAR", it was the source of some laughs.
FUBAR is the name of a 780 CSR (in the UBA: failed unibus address register);
perhaps it was used in the 730 as well. I'm sure the engineers got a kick out
of being able to sneak that acronym past the writers and managers.
> ...
> there was what I'd call a bug in the vms on that system. you could rename a
> .dir that had files within it to say .dat then delete the .dat if you set it
> /nodirectory, and all the files within the dir would still use up disk space,
> even though there was now no longer any way to work with them. so you'd have
> this missing disk space basically forever, still counting against the users
> quota.
> I know because I did that at least twice.
VMS is like Unix: directories are name to inode number maps (not called
"inode"; I forgot the correct name). A file doesn't need a name. I remember
RSX had an explicit way to reference a file by its number, don't remember what
VMS did.
paul
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