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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-06-04 04:13, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 6/3/2023 6:46 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> 
>> ISTR that DCL came in with RSTOS V9. Many of my colleagues grumbled 
>> about it - then we moved to VAX...
> 
> Certainly before V9, which I think came out in 1985.

There was a DCL before V9, but it was rather different to what came in V9.

> I used RSTS/E in college, graduating in 1984, and definitely
> used DCL on RSTS/E then.

The DCL that existed before V9 was a rather simple KBM. The one 
introduced in V9 was very similar to VMS, and is a language in addition 
to being a KBM.

> At that time, we students didn't understand why the default
> keyboard monitor changed from BASIC+ to DCL.
> 
> Yes, we knew how to switch back to BASIC+ for our KBM.

I'm fairly sure that still in V8, the default KBM was BASIC+. But that 
could of course have been changed by the system administrators...

In V9, the default was changed to be DCL.

   Johnny