On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 10:00 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: > 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
IIRC I think the depth was configurable, not programmable. Same with the default case for file names - bumped into it when transferring files from VMS to Unix. Agreed, learning DCL and the OS structure and commands was easier if you were coming from RSX/MIX than if you just knew Unix. Adrian _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
