[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Martin Gregorie]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:44:15 +0000, Pancho wrote:

> Looking back on it now. I think the strangest thing about VMS was the
> Manual Set.

I was part of one, fairly large, project on VAX/VMS. I thought the oddest 
part of it was the way the usual collection of programmer's utilities were 
implemented as a handful of multi-function development tools, i.e. one 
program that handled all source file management tasks, another to take 
care of all comms tasks, etc. I've never met any other OS that was 
structured that way. 

Several years later I did another project on DEC Alpha Servers running 
Tru64 UNIX, which I preferred to VMS, being a UNIX fanatic. Tru64 UNIXwas 
pretty much a straight-forward port of UNIX System V functions and 
programing tools onto a MACH-based kernel. This was amazingly fast for the 
era and fairly bullet-proof.
     

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