I was brought up ( after CP/M! ) with RSX and later VMS and they were really good, reliable systems, although VMS did bloat like all OS's seem to do. Shame it died really ):
Making Unix a friendly place for VMSers was fun... plenty of 1 to 1 command mappings, and I got most of EDT working on vi, too! Steve On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 07:49 +1200, John Carter wrote: > Sigh! It wasn't a bad system VMS. > > Sadly enough the next gen system was canned, and the team working on > it was absorbed by the microsoft borg. (The Good Bits about Windows NT > internals came from them.) > > I still tend to put a symlink on my systems from "x" to emacs, out of > a VMS xedit engendered habit of saying "x fileName.c" whenever I want > to edit a file. > > I always thought it a pity that team hadn't been absorbed by one of > the *nix companies. > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Steve Holdoway > <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 18:16 +1300, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:13:46 Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > When I worked for Philips Medical Systems, we used VMS, > but that was for > > > the bodyscanners. > > > > How long ago was that? > > > > ...seems like only yesterday, but was in fact 1985-7 (: > > > -- > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 > Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 > PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : > [email protected] > New Zealand > > > ======================================================================= > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > lost by reason of this transmission. > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > other act on the email. > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > altered or corrupted during transmission. > ======================================================================= > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] Skype: sholdowa
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
_______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
