2 Feb
2002
2 Feb
'02
2:24 a.m.
Huw Davies wrote:
In the early days of VMS (say 1.6 through 2.6) there were large parts of
VMS that were "compatibility" mode images. Obvious things like
Datatrieve-11 were there but things like PIP helped users COPY and RENNAME
files. Before BACKUP we used an -11 backup utility whose name escapes me
right now (bit rot in the brain).
DSC -- Disk Save and Compress
It's been a long while, but I'm sure
there were lots of other PDP-11 images (ISTR FORTRAN was one of them). We
owe a lot to compatibility mode, otherwise VAX/VMS in the early days
wouldn't have been much use at all. (Yes, I appreciate that this ages me
somewhat, but I was a really _young_ VMS system manager :-)
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
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Yup... FLX file exchange, SYE error log formatter -- both 11
compatibility images gone by 4.x.
Bill
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