It was thus said that the Great Mouse once stated:
> All the
now-nostalgicized-over '80s OSes were pretty horribly
> unstable: [...]
Personally - I went through my larval phase under it - I'd cite VMS as
a counterexample. Even today I think a lot of OSes would do well to
learn from it. (Not that I think it's perfect, of course. But I do
think it did some things better than most of what I see today.)
What I've read about VMS makes me think the networking was incredible. 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).
-spc