RMS was an absolute pleasure to work with. Fast, clean and efficient, and concurrent access was pain-free too. RMS supported streams as well as records. Hummmp

RMS was an absolute pleasure to work with. Fast, clean and efficient, and concurrent access was pain-free too. RMS supported streams as well as records. Hummmph, it was kind of a pleasure on a VAX, but on a PDP-11 under RSX or RSTS/E the libraries for it ate so much of the (16 bit) address space that it became a real challenge to fit a useful application into memory. Also, it only sort of supported streams, they were not really byte streams like Unix, but variable length record streams with CRLF marking the record delimiters. So porting Unix code to VMS was never quite as straightforward as one hoped.