[Info-vax] Time to turn DECUServe into a mixed VMScluster?

Rich Alderson news at alderson.users.panix.com
Fri Jun 2 16:56:09 EDT 2023


Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> writes:

> VAX/VMS DCL was present at the initial public handbook point, and highly
> likely earlier.

> RSX-11M-PLUS genesis is later. RSX-11M DCL is well later (I was a field test
> site for RSX-11M 3.2).

> IAS I cannot speak to.  Also, did not encounter RSTS/E till later.

> Somewhere I had a TOPS-20 reference card, but cannot go looking for it.

The TOPS-20 EXEC is very different from DCL, and predates the VAX and VMS by
several years.  Most of the lessons learned from EXEC were thrown away.

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