[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[AEF]

On Jan 28, 1:46 am, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
> AEF schrieb:
>
> > New! From IDG books: DOS for Dummkopfs.
>
> That should be "Dummköpfe", but Umlauts are not everybody's
> strong points.
> Back to the point: Neither VMS Help nor Unix man pages
> are appropriate for learning either OS from scratch.
> They are meant as a reminder for forgotten keywords and such.
> If you have no clue about those OS, both help systems
> are next to useless.
> I had to work on VMS before I knew Unix and found
> VMS, its filesystem and its HELP less intuitive.
> So Unix was a progress.

> And, since you mentioned physics labs a few posts ago:
> in these facilities one usually has a local primer
> for newbies. Anyway one will need only a very small
> subset of an OSs capabilities to do physics work.

Well, "a very small subset of an OS's capabilities"? That's somewhat
subjective and we used quite a few things: logical names; print,
batch, generic, and server queues; VMSclusters and their nodes; VWS,
DECwindows, X-windows, graphics terminals, and VT escape sequences;
data-analysis software written by labs that uses quite a few other
features (including the "analyzer" program, which runs in the
background); foreign commmands; mounting, dismounting, reading, and
writing various types of tapes; Fortran and associated stuff;
AUTHORIZE; SORT; lots of DCL; BACKUP; MONITOR; the performance manual;
floating point accelerator (okay, that's hardware); . . . . And that's
what I can think of offhand right now. Need I go on?

AEF