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<div>On Sun, 2019-03-10 at 11:37 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:</div>
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<pre>On 10/03/2019 00:59, Robert Heller wrote:</pre>
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<pre>At Sat, 9 Mar 2019 23:22:18 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <</pre>
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<pre>On 09/03/2019 22:44, Robert Heller wrote:</pre>
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<pre>That would be a VAX-11/780.</pre>
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<pre>That was the one. Nice machine at the time. Horrible OS.</pre>
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<pre>Horrible OS? I liked it well enough.</pre>
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<pre>VMS was TOPS-10 trying to be UNIX. It was very popular, but too verbose </pre>
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<div>Certainly verbose. People hated it because it was verbose and people loved it because it was, er... verbose!</div>
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<div>Not sure that it was ever trying to be UNIX! Version 1 of VMS was basically RSX with verbose command that just invoked RSX commands! Even had PIP! That changed fairly quickly to all native commands in version 2, I think!</div>
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<div>Tony.</div>
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