>personal dislike for VMS. I don't know enough about VMS to form an >opinion on it--its popular days were before my time. ;^)
I never cared for the VMS command shell (I think it was DCL, been a few years since I worked on it), but there is a lot to be learned from the VMS architecture itself. For one, it has security features that would make you cringe. Also, it just plain doesn't crash. That aside, to each his own. You'll take my UN*X when you pry it from my cold, dead, hardware. -Melvin
