[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Tue Nov 14 04:30:18 EST 2023


On 2023-11-14 00:40, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> 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.

What other OSes do you have experience with?

Source management is usually handled by one single program, even on most 
systems today. Be that cvs, svn, git or whatever.

And have you ever looked at find under Unix? That's a swiss army knife 
if you ever saw one...

   Johnny




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