Hey Carol!

Jul 23 06:20 05, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 CS> I'll have to do a web search but I recall it was a BSD varient, and 
 CS> it
 CS> was never 'little-endian' stuff, always mainframe oriented.

Since way back then, someone came out with a Opensource version of VMS for
PC's.  Perhaps that is what you're thinking about?  Not sure about the
endianess of that.  I almost downloaded it but then thought better about
it.  Linux keeps me occupied enough.

 MK>>then it is for most.  Also my recollections of VAX/VMS
 MK>>helped ease any apprehensions I may have had at the time.

 CS> Not to mention would have made the littler later *nix stuff easier 
 CS> for
 CS> you.

Sort of, but only because I had to figure out VAX/VMS more or less on my
own too, so that set the stage for being plopped down behind a Sparc with a
pile of manuals and then being totally abandoned.  Somewhere in there I
picked up on c-shell which led me to c and the rest was history.  After the
initial panic wore off I honestly started to enjoy it.  Those huge honkin'
21" monitors certainly didn't hurt my feelings any especially after
playing with those eye-bleeding green/yellow screens on those dumb
terminals for so long.

So like I said;  VAX/VMS beforehand helped ease the pain of learning Unix
on ye ol' Sparcs.  Unfortunetly it wasn't long after that when DOS entered
my life and totally screwed me up.  Fortunetly it wasn't too long before I
discovered Slackware and got back ontrack.

That is my story and I am sticking to it.

--- Msged/LNX 6.1.2