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

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In article <7ltgfgF3ggj8tU1 at mid.dfncis.de>, js at cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
>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. 

Exactly.  There's nothing standard about it.

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