[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

Richard Kettlewell invalid at invalid.invalid
Wed Nov 15 12:04:22 EST 2023


Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo at eircom.net> writes:
> Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> Well. I don't fully agree with that, but I'm fine with just disagreeing 
>> without getting into any further discussions. I can certainly dig up 
>> other tools under Unix which left the "unix paradigm" behind a long time 
>> ago, if you want.
>
> 	Emacs springs to mind.

Originated outside Unix, I think.

dd seems like a good example. Present at least as far back as V5 Unix
but its interface is belligerently different from any other Unix tool,
and it’s at best an uneasy fit with the “do one thing well” approach of
many of its siblings.

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