On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 11:24:44 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

>  Some of them did get in... Since some of WinNT was inspired by
DEC's
> VMS...  And I doubt anyone would claim VMS is an insecure OS given how
> heavily it was used for defense related work.
>
>  Unfortunately, they didn't scrap the MS-DOS command line and file
> naming...  (Come on... Why allow drives/partitions to have volume
> NAMES when you can't use the name to reference them! Strangely, AmigaOS
> better matched VMS when it came to things like volume and logical [which
> are NOT related to UNIX/Windows environment variables] names) and the
> requirement to maintain 16-bit compatibility probably made the
> user-level much weaker for security.
>
> https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vms-rest-story
> https://everything2.com/title/
The+similarities+between+VMS+and+Windows+NT

An interesting read: thanks. I've done little to no development using NT,
though I did a project or two using VAX VMS and DEC's database RDB.

The main things I remember about VMS were not much liking the concept of
having a few massive utility programs and that noticing that there were a
lot of similarities between the way the VMS command interpreter works and
ICL's George 3 command interpreter - I liked this because I'd been a G3
sysadmin and found the similarities helpful when getting to grips with
using VMS for development and writing scripts for it.

I knew a lot more about DEC's UNIX on Alphaserver boxes than I ever knew
about VMS, but this was because by the time I met the Alphaserver I'd
used several Unices and Unix workalikes (TSC Uniflex, Microware's OS-9
and Stratus VOS) and gotten to grips with Tandem's Guardian OS - not one
of my favourites, but at least it was better than IBM's horrid MVS/370.


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