>> [...] VMS [...] > What I've read about VMS makes me think the networking was > incredible.
For its time, certainly. Even today, there are a few things a DECnet stack does better than an IP stack. > But having used VMS (as a student), the command line *sucked* (except > for the help facility---that blows the Unix man command out of the > water). I'm not sure I agree. The VMS command line I used sucked, but so did Unix shells of the time, and in many of the same ways. As for VMS HELP, I don't think the tool is all that much better; what is _much_ better is the documentation it contains. DEC documentation of the VMS era was _awesome_. Even today I rarely see it equaled, never mind bettered, in many ways. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
