[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:54:14 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <7hhqleF2u15qvU2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
> (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
>    Nope.  I've never seen a VMS system running without DCL.  Even when
>    we used VMS in a manner similar to an embedded system it did have an
>    OPA0, and we used DCL heavily.

I've seen a VMS system that didn't even have a console.

It was called an LPS-40.




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