[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[P. Sture]

In article <slrnhbni7j.e3c.rivie at stench.no.domain>,
 Roger Ivie <rivie at ridgenet.net> wrote:

> On 2009-09-24, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
> > In article <SL-dnUDFmOL_5ybXnZ2dnUVZ_u2dnZ2d at giganews.com>, 
> > "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> >> 
> >> I had to use SOS early in my VMS career!
> >
> >    SOS, which was basically the same as TOPS-20 EDIT, is an editor I've
> >    gladly left behind. 
> 
> I also used SOS early in my VMS career.
> 
> I took to it quite quickly, since the command set was basically the same
> as the line-editing commands used by the various Microsoft BASICs I had
> been using on microcomputers. Given that Bill Gates developed BASIC on a
> PDP-10, I suspect that is not coincidence.
> 
> Unlike the earlier comment about easing CPU usage by going to EDT, we
> were often tracked down and hollered at when we switched to EDT on H19s
> at the university. Of course, this may also have been related to
> increasing the baud rate to 9600 before firing up EDT...

Wasn't SOS compatibility mode? Perhaps that's why I disliked it. I do 
remember rejoicing when VMS finally supported 19200 baud.

-- 
Paul Sture