[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <jpDV126eGoXi at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <7hdecqF2qoc2jU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> Aren't there "embedded" VMS boxes?  Honest question, because I really
>> thought there were.
> 
>    We've used VMS boxes in the same manner as embedded systems, but an
>    embedded system doesn't even think it has an OPA0.

So then, you agree with me that DCL, per se, is not really a part of the
OS as it functions just fine without it.

Which brings us right back to the original topic.  The shell is not "the
standard Unix user interface" it is merely an application that runs on
top of the OS and offers features that some users find useful.

bill
 

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