Yeah. I really enjoyed the bidirectional-linking inherent in it.
Was reasonably straightforward to learn and was way ahead of Win3.11
at the time!
Like you, I think it's a pity MS got it rather than a Unix company.
On 27/09/2010 8:49 a.m., 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 (:
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