[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-11-15 18:04, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> 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.

Yes. PDP-10s. If it was ITS or TOPS-20 at the start, I dare not say. 
Written in TECO.

> 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.

I have some recollection that dd's interface comes from something like 
IBMs OS/360. But I could be very wrong on that one.

   Johnny