[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

bill bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 09:43:35 EST 2023


On 11/14/2023 4:30 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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...
> 

Do you mean Unix find or Gnu find?  Gnu people lost track of the Unix
Paradigm  long ago.

bill





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