[Info-vax] OpenVMS 35th anniversary

[Bob Koehler]

In article <k4jnq5$hp6$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> Not that I would know the details, Rich, but RSX have never been able to 
> run on a VAX. The PDP-11 compatibility mode on a VAX don't extend past 
> user mode.

   True.  However in VMS 1.x, when you typed in DIRECTORY, you got an
   output identical to what you got by typing MCR PIP /LI.

   So it felt a lot like RSX.

> 
> User space CUSPs and languages in VMS was pretty much RSX-11M for the 
> first couple of years, though.
> 
> 	Johnny
>