[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Rich Alderson]

Richard Kettlewell <invalid at invalid.invalid> writes:

> 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.

Indeed.

> 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.

dd was intentionally designed to mimic the behavior of OS/360 Job Control
Language's Data Definition (DD) cards.  It does that thing, and that thing
only, very well.

So dd has the Unix Nature (R).

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