[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Robin Fairbairns]

 Rich Alderson <news at alderson.users.panix.com> writes:
>rf10 at cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
>>  billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>> That's 6 years.  A lifetime in this industry.
>>
>> so people programming vms today are great-great-great-great-
>> grandchildren of those of us who started on v1.6?
>
>If you want to get TeXnical, I suppose so.
>
>(I do remember you from c.t.t, don't I?)

since you say so ;-) -- it's certainly possible.  i started using tex
on a vms machine, and had to haggle with the managing director of the
firm for a trivial amount of money to make the ln03 tex bitmap font
capable.  (pretty unusual -- they seldom accepted "we need it" as an
argument for equipment purchases.)
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge