NuTek Mac comes
Peter Coghlan
cctalk at beyondthepale.ie
Thu Jul 14 16:51:40 CDT 2016
>
> > 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.
>
What is it that "sucked" about the VMS command line? I used it a lot and I
had some issues here and there but I found it to be streets ahead of any other
command line system I came across on anything else anywhere.
(Not that I think we should doing os-wars re-enactments here. Too many glass
houses to start a stone throwing competition.)
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
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