[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <32gk6SH+kao5 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <7hchmmF2r574qU3 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>  
>> 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?
> 
>    DCL is certainly part of VMS.  It is not a user mode program, it
>    comes with the OS, and by default the OS is set up to grant it
>    the environment it needs to run in supervisor mode.

You mean like the Unix Shell that does all the startup scripts and yet
isn't part  of the OS????
 
bill

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