[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <V49+bpWWDtyc at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <7haqjjF2ssv04U1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> You just won't accept that there are other ways tio us Unix than a shell,
>> will you.  At least there has been since the TTY went away.  :-)
> 
>    I have, and I do, but the application's interface is not the OS
>    interface.
 
So, now we are back to arguing what is OS and what is an application
on top of the OS.  Is BASH part of the OS?  Is DCL?  I really don't
think any "OS" has a "user" inteface.  They all have an API for which
various user interfaces get written.  Under Unix, a "shell" is just a
user level program.  One is not even necessary in order for the OS to
be functional for regular users.  Kind of like menu driven captive
accounts on VMS that offer no access to DCL for the user.

bill

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