[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-11-14 15:43, bill wrote:
> 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.

With find it don't matter. Even the original is crazy. The one tool 
where the Unix paradigm got completely lost...

GNU have indeed gone crazy with options to programs as well, I admit. 
Not to mention the added craziness of Red Hat...

   Johnny