[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/24/2024 8:18 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:13:44 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 4/24/2024 6:15 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:52:36 +1200, David Goodwin wrote:
>>>> The difference here is that Windows NT isn't limited to a single
>>>> userspace API/personality, historically it provided three (Win32, OS/2
>>>> and POSIX) in addition to its own Native API.
>>>
>>> That’s the theory. In practice, it doesn’t seem to have worked very
>>> well. The POSIX “personality” for example, was essentially unusable.
>>
>> My impression is that it worked fine.
> 
> You got to be kidding <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOeku3hDzrM>.

I did not watch all of it.

But it seems like this person did not really understand the
Posix standard (from that time).

His main argument seems to be that it is not useful.

I believe that.

But that is the limitation of Posix (from that time).

VMS Posix was not considered useful by many either.

Arne