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

[Paul Raulerson]

Uh- by 1976, Unix was a very well known entity indeed. 
What "history book" are you referencing there? 

-Paul

On Nov 10, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Bob Koehler 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.
> 
>   And don't anyone try to mix up the words "Windows" and "standards".
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Info-vax mailing list
> Info-vax at rbnsn.com
> http://rbnsn.com/mailman/listinfo/info-vax_rbnsn.com
>