[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[TimS]

On 15 Nov 2023 at 20:59:37 GMT, "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> 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.

In commands that look like line-noise.

>> 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.

Fortunately I was able to avoid that.

-- 
Tim