On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:58:02AM +0100, Laurie Brown wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
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Then Microsoft got lucky by hiring a key VMS architect (I forget who)
Dave Cutler.
and therefore NT became more of a Microsoft interpretation of VMS rather than Microsoft's version of OS/2 (there is a strong rumour I heard once
It's a shame that it didn't. VMS was (and probably still is) a really good OS. I spent many years programming on VMS (and RSTS/E, and RT11, etc.)
It had annoying command line syntax, the "shell" was frustrating, and the best tools where (as always) already Open Source projects by the time I was using VMS ;)
Otherwise, yeah - lovely OS - rock solid, neat evil features to hack it when you've forgotten the root password (god that was fun, MDs forgetting the password... here - fix this will you? Oh how I laughed.)
Cheers,