[Info-vax] Looking into C-include files on VMS

[Joerg Schilling]

In article <$CAuYR59Ila+ at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
>In article <7lt9bbF3f65jjU1 at mid.dfncis.de>, js at cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
>> 
>> Decently (portably) written software just needs a recompile if this is done
>> on an OS that follows standards.
>
>   Standards?  UNIX was not anyonss "standard" at the time VMS was
>   invented, it was an OS that AT&T had advertised and got no customers
>   for.  VMS didn't follow it, MS-DOS didn't follow it, nobody did,
>   but they did all know its strengths and weaknesses.

It seems that you don't know that AT&T was not allowed to sell UNIX in the 
1970s as AT&T was a monopoly and thus some US anti trust laws did forbid
AT&T to sell anything not related to the monopoly.

You also seem to forget that the name vfork() and the related interface 
is not a VMS invention but was introduced by Bill Joy at UCB in BSD UNIX. 

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