> From: Clem Cole <[email protected]>
> While I think it bug Dave and others that people did not like his > favorite system ... "The New Hacker's Dictionary", MIT Press, 3rd edition: "Many Unix fans generously concede that VMS would probably be the hacker's favorite commercial OS if Unix didn't exist; though true, this makes VMS fans furious." ;-) > Unix has been able to embrace the ideas easily and I do not think > that would have been easy with VMS It would not, which makes it even more curious that there was a pilot effort at reimplementation of VMS on top of Mach. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=964616 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=692228 http://www.sture.ch/vms/Usenix_VMS-on-Mach.pdf > They wrote Mica in C++ (warped a bit to look like PL/1 IMO) Was not it supposed to be in Pillar (kind of Pascal++)? Or was Pillar abandoned or relegated to some other role? http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/dec/prism/mica/Pillar_Language_Specification_Nov88.pdf _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
