On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 17:00:49 -0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
 declaimed the following:

>
>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.
>

 VMS was much better documented. Something like three/four feet of 3"
thick 3-ring binders. Think there were two or three binders just for the
SYS$ system calls, another for RMS$ (record management services). Manuals
for each compiler...

 Try finding that stuff for M$ -- it's a pain, often scattered about.
("Programming Windows 6th Ed" focused on Win8 "Apps" using C#; the "Windows
Internals" books describe how the OS works, but don't really provide
anything on the Win32 system calls themselves).

>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

 I don't recall those... At least I could make sense of the compiler
options since compile and link were separate (and, in practice, we would
stuff object files into a library so the link statement basically
referenced just the main function and the library as a whole)... Unlike the
common invocation of "gcc" which attempts to do everything via one command
invocation.


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