[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-11-15 20:31, Jake Hamby (Solid State Jake) wrote:
> 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.

Not sure it's meant as a parody. Don't even know what one would want to 
paridy such a thing. But I do remember seeing/hearing about it coming 
from some IBM thing.

   Johnny