On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 08:42 +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote: > Umm guys I believe that VMS is still alive... albeit somewhat > diminished. > > > Apparently it seems to have found refuge in real time systems and the > military. > I believe that the Tiwai Point pot-lines are run using a VMS real time > system. > > > And I'm sorry but I do not mourn it's loss in "normal" systems it was > a seriously weird OS. > "set default" to change directory was weird and also there was a > maximum depth of 7 in a directory structure when I last looked.
set default was only weird if you didn't learn it first! It was an easy step up from RSX ( and the Rainbow - remember them?? ). Either way the directory structure hierarchy being addressed was the same as everything else... The only real trouble came when programming sys$qio stuff from C... then you realise quite how far the world had progressed from Fortran. And the max depth was programmable IIRC. Last version I used in anger was 3.7 in 1984, so I may well be wrong! Steve -- Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] Skype: sholdowa
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