On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 17:52 -0700, Cunningham, Dave wrote: > I spent way too much of my VMS time playing that text only adventure game ;-) > > "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike..." > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Chris Samuel > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:35 PM > To: Beowulf List > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Oracle buys Sun > > > ----- "Joe Landman" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This was VMS. Not openVMS. Vax 8650 or something like that. > > > > I seem to remember the scripting language was quite fortran-esq. > > Using VMS was a bit like playing a text only adventure game.. > Yes, the good old days of DCL! It seemed fairly robust in those days with its capability to implement functions and all. Between DCL and EVE, I felt pretty powerful back then :) Although, I loathe to admit that the first thing I did with EVE was to try and make it work like TECO, but now I am really dating myself :)
If I can only get my copy of VTTREK up and running again! _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
