[Info-vax] VMS internals design, was: Re: BASIC and AST routines

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <j0c73vF4nvbU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
<bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes: 

> And, it still avoids my original question. What can you do on VMS
> that can not be done on another system?  The effort and cost are
> not a part of this equation.  Only the task to be done.  

Any Turing machine can emulate another.  So the answer is "nothing".  
But important to most people are the time, effort, risk, and money 
involved and how much enjoyment it brings.