[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Jake Hamby (Solid State Jake)]

On Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 10:57:03 AM UTC-8, bill wrote:
> On 11/14/2023 1:21 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:05:21 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote: 
> > 
> >> So in which way do you think VMS is so different than all of the above? 
> >> 
> > Its been a long time, but as I already said, 
> > 
> > VMS seemed to have a few portmanteau commands where the other OSen had a 
> > host of single function commands. For instance, to access the equivalents 
> > of the Unix commands rm, cp, less and ls under VAX/VMS you first logged in 
> > (same as unix) but then you had to start a package (sorry, but I don't 
> > remember its name) to access its own command line and then run the UNIX- 
> > like comands.
> Oh my god.... I think he is equating Eunice with VMS..... 
> 
> :-) 
> 
> bill

More likely he's referring to the POSIX shell from the 1990s. Has anyone here ever used it? I found a USENET thread from 1995 asking about it. We certainly didn't have that package at my university, and it was never available through the hobbyist program. https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/iN0XusPhZH4