[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <93bd7d6d-adb0-451d-b08d-f056bc0ca10d at 33g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 
>> I know that there is some sort of a Unix-like shell on some recent
>> releases but I think it was only in recent releases.  V3.7-V5.5-2 didn't
>> have a Unix like shell.  I don't recall one in V6.x.  I'm not sure just
>> when Posix came along.
> 
>    Apparently.
> 
> GIMP $ write sys$output f$getsyi( "version")
> V5.5-2
> 
> GIMP $ posix
> psx> uname -a
> POSIX_for_OpenVMS_VAX GIMP V2.0(V2.0) V5.5-2 VAX_4000-200 VAX

   The POSIX kit (which first shipped about the time of VMS 6.0 for VAX) 
   supported VMS versions back to 5.5, and which were retroactively renamed 
   OpenVMS by DEC.