[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <7hfpitF2qf9thU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> I am not talking about a "shell" on VMS.  We are talking about wether
> or not DCL is a part of the OS as it has already been stated that
> the Unix shell is not.  I was pointing out that the Unix shell has
> the same functions that were listed as making DCL a part of the OS.
> I claim it does not and that DCL is just an application that runs on
> top of the VMS Kernel.

   Not all the functions are the same.  And we've pointed out other
   considerations that make DCL more a part of VMS that a shell is
   of UNIX.