[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, October 8, 2021 at 7:28:07 AM UTC+13, Simon Clubley wrote:
> The same is true for VMS CLIs BTW. DCL is tightly bound into VMS 
> in a horrible way it should not be. On Linux, both the command 
> shell and filesystem architectures are vastly cleaner and more 
> modular than they are on VMS. 

Fundamental difference in mindset: process creation in VMS is expensive and to be avoided if possible, while on *nix systems it’s something you do as naturally as breathing.

And of course the VMS mindset continued over into Windows NT...

> However, if VMS had been designed in a later era ...

Note that Unix predates VMS. Folks at DEC would have been aware of it right from the early days, since it was born on DEC hardware.