[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-03-18 20.30, David Froble wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> Well, lets say that UNIX as we now know it was due in large part, to
>> the Comp Sci, students at Berkely. It's thanks to them we are not
>> writing IBM JCL!
>>
>>
>
> I would not agree with the JCL part. Before Unix was an idea, I was
> happily working with RSTS/E. Served me well until the VAX was introduced.
>
> DEC had a number of operating systems back in the day ....

Actually, that is not correct either. Unix is older than RSTS/E...

While I agree that there were alternatives to Unix back in the day, that 
weren't spelled JCL, but DEC PDP-11 OSes weren't among them.

	Johnny