On Saturday, 26 December 1998,
     MURRAY LESSER wrote to IVAN TODOROSKI about ext2fs

 ML>     AFAIK, HPFS is not the _only_ good thing to come out of MS. but it
 ML> may well have been the last one :-).  I still use (on rare occasion) the
 ML> MS BASIC PDS v 7.1 compiler, which can put out 16-bit text-mode, OS/2
 ML> programs.  Unlike many later compilers, it includes VSAM file management
 ML> as a built-in capability.  (IIRC, HPFS first appeared on OS/2 v 1.1;
 ML> BASIC PDS was written for OS/2 v 1.0.)

   At the risk of sounding ignorant, what exactly is PDS and VSAM?

                                                            - Ivan -

.!. I shave with Occam's Razor.
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