[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Jake Hamby (Solid State Jake)]

On Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 9:04:28 AM UTC-8, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste... at eircom.net> writes: 
> > Johnny Billquist <b... 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. 

The reason "dd" is so different from other UNIX tools is that it's a parody of the "DD" statement in IBM's JCL.