[Info-vax] VMS Forever?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <49e68ece$0$90274$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> G Cornelius wrote:
>> Officially, there have been a few non-DCL CLI's, including, I
>> suppose, Posix and one or more of its predecessors.
> 
> Pre-V5 shipped with MCR.
> 
> Though I have never heard of anyone using it for something.

   The MCR command is still in sys$system:shutdown.com as a way
   to run a program in sys$system with arguments.  I don't think
   it will go away.

   The MCR CLI allong with the rest of the RSX AME was made optional in 
   VMS 4.0 and the only thing I ever missed were a couple of things PIP
   could do that showed up later in DCL, and one that didn't (but I
   think it's in DFU which is just as good for my purposes).

   Prior to 4.0 VMS wouldn't run without the AME.

   Other than DCL and MCR, DEC shipped DECShell (a Bourne shell) and the
   POSIX shell (almost exactly a korn shell) for VMS.  AFAIK only DCL is
   still supported, unless you count GNV as "supported".