[Info-vax] DCL, was: Re: Microkernel

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <k0eblu$knk$1 at dont-email.me>,
 Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

> I think it's a case of not missing something you have never been
> exposed to. (And, yes, I accept the workflow of other people will be
> different from my own and hence they may not put as much emphasis on
> these capabilities even if they were exposed to them.)

Remember command and filename completion on TOPS-20?  Fantastic.

I interviewed for the VMS team once.  They asked me what I'd want to do 
under the radar.  I told them I'd want to look into making the CLI more 
pluggable.  That is, if I want to run DCL, fine.  But if I want to run 
the MCR interpreter, or bash-for-VMS, it should be trivial.  I'd want to 
work on making it so.  For some reason, they didn't hire me. :-/

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