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

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:51:12 +0000, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> 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.

Once again, as you say, he has it hopelessly wrong. I wonder if emotion 
is blinding him to the facts....!

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