* Billy Abbott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > it does have built in file versioning and an advanced beard growing plugin > though... >
VMS is wonderful, i first learned to write multiuser applications on VMS, writing a shared diary facility in Pascal[1][2]. However I seem to recall the best feature (apart from maybe the file versioning) was the phone utility[3], which IIRC used the terminal's bell to reproduce the sound of a ringing phone. Greg [1] Before everyone goes ``Eugh Pascal'', i had to write another multiuser diary a few years later using Motif and ML (a functional language, i.e. it has no variables/state), after this exercise Pascal looked like a wonderful language for the task. However sometimes when I'm running a really high temperature i look back and think that ML is actually a great language for doing user interfaces and I tell this to Mr Socko, the sock puppet, who only talks to me when i'm in these states. [2] Ok, it didn't need to be multiuser I just got a bit carried. [3] Equivalent to UNIX's talk command. It was particularly exciting as this was the first time i used a multiuser computer. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
