Help us defend against VMS!

[Dick St.Peters]

In article <10745 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>I would not be surprised to see a `VMS environment' in some future
>Ultrix, however---not VMS itself but something that lets VMS folks
>feel comfortable.

Quite likely.  As an alternate CLI (extra-cost option, of course), VMS
now offers the "DEC shell" - essentially a Bourne shell, with cat,
awk, sed, etc., enough to unpack many shar scripts if you strip off
any "#! /bin/sh" line.

DEC probably noticed the money that Interactive Systems and The
Wollongong Group were making from products to make VMS look like UNIX.
I believe I've seen an ad for a third-party UNIX emulation of VMS.
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Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters at ge-crd.arpa              
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