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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-06-03 23:04, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 6/3/2023 4:11 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
>> RSTS/E DCL is way later. But it is maybe the one closest to VMS.
> 
> That is bacause RSTS ISVs were asking DEC to make VMS look more like RSTS.

Oh that is definitely true. Under the hood, VMS is very much like RSX, 
but as a user experience, it certainly is more like RSTS/E.

But this time my reflection really was that RSTS/E also, over time, 
became more like VMS.

If you ever used RSTS/E V9 or later, you understand what I mean. 
Otherwise, it might be an interesting experience. ;-)

> One of the DEC people, management I think, asked, "what if we implement 
> DCL on RSTS?".  I was there when the question was asked.  Yeah, the 
> opposite of what we were asking for, but that's how it happened.
> 
> This happened maybe around 1980.  Definitely before 1982.

DCL on VMS, in the modern form at least, happened in RSTS/E V9. I'm 
pretty sure of that. Which place it close to the end of the 80s.

Can't remember if some form of DCL existed earlier, but if it did, it 
was a different beast.

   Johnny