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

John Smith (not the one @ HP) a at nonymous.com
Wed Jan 28 11:23:53 EST 2009


"Tim E. Sneddon" <tesneddon at bigpond.com> wrote in message 
news:lyCel.14048$cu.12576 at news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article 
>> <05b548fd-8d1f-48c9-80c4-777bf5f6c37c at q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
>> AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
>>> Wait a minute. Are you limiting this discussion to front-end and home
>>> use? What about VMS as a back-end?
>>
>> No, backend machines have users, too.  What's a machine without users? A
>> doorstop?  But, "right out of the box" VMS has no applications at all.
>> Oh wait, I guess you get TPU.
>
> Oh come now, don't forget TECO! You get an editor, a game
> platform and an interpreted, portable, programming language
> all in one! Isn't that what everyone else uses VMS for...?


TECO - best ever editor for working over x.25 when we were being charged by 
the kilobyte for traffic.






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