[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-11-13 18:57, Jake Hamby (Solid State Jake) wrote:
> On Monday, November 13, 2023 at 9:44:19 AM UTC-8, Pancho wrote:
>> On 13/11/2023 15:12, Bob Eager wrote:
>>>
>>> That's a more realistic figure, and what has been observed (by me).
>> Observed figures are always more realistic, they are, after all, real.
>>
>> Apparently, my rPi5 has arrived today, but I'm not going to test the
>> emulator. I'm happy to leave the VMS part of my life, in the past.
>>
>> Looking back on it now. I think the strangest thing about VMS was the
>> Manual Set.
> 
> Why is it strange that so much printed documentation was released with VMS? To me, the real strangeness is in learning all the proprietary APIs documented in all of those printed manuals. :) Thank goodness HP made all the documentation available in PDF form and often HTML as well for free in the early 2000's. The current VSI docs site is even better, with better HTML rendering of the original documents.

Do you think all the propietary APIs and libraries under Unix are any 
different?
Nowadays there is POSIX (didn't even exist back when VMS was designed), 
but POSIX only covers a small fraction of the libraries people use in 
development.

Online documentation like man-pages is helpful, but it's usually not 
nearly as deep as the VMS paper docs. The fact that the VMS docs were 
made available as HTML and PDF was a nice improvement.

   Johnny