[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[JF Mezei]

re Unix used as command line.

Note that Apple has sold about 50 million Iphone and IpodTouch. Both are
based on Unix (freebsd), and neither offer a command line and are 100%
GUI. Add to that the millions of OS-X machines Apple has sold which are,
in the majority of cases, used exclusively as a GUI, and I would say
that today, the majority of Unix users don't even know they are on Unix
because they are sheltered from stuff like "ls" and "vi" because of a
well developped GUI.

And think about all of the routers and industrial devices which are
based on unix/linux and offer no "unix command line" access.

And for those who do use command line, while there may be significant
kernel differences, various brands of Unix offer a pretty common command
line shells. And in the end, that is what defines what Unix is, just
like the $ prompt and the command syntax and argument parsing define how
you interface with VMS.