[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[johnson.eric at gmail.com]

On Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 7:17:02 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> A standard was needed.  The majority of available Open Source
> Software was written for Unix/POSIX.  What would you have them
> do use the totally obscure and unknown VMS API as the basis
> for POSIX?

I'll second this perspective.

While I can kind of understand some of the animosity
towards Unix, I really don't see how an API derived from
the essence of VMS would have been any simpler, clearer
or more straightforward.

>From my experience, most of the VMS APIs are quite ornate
and impose a complexity on the end user that isn't really
necessary.

POSIX is about as simple as you can get while also keeping
some sort of truce towards something resembling cross 
platform support. 

EJ