cbspt002@abnjh.UUCP (Marc E. Kenig ) (06/22/84)
<Usenet - The official network of the 1984 summer games in LA!> A friend who went to spring DECUS just told me a hot rumor that DEC will soon offer the bourne shell as an alternate command language interpreter for VMS! Using SETCLI, both the 'native' VMS and bourne shell can coexist on the same VMS system at the same time. For those of you who simply berate VMS for it's interface, you can have your shell and VMS, too! Note that it's just cosmetic, no real UNIX underneath. Just think: $ edt /disk$user/myname/sfd/sfd/verylongvms4.0filename;1 Of course you could always use VMS emacs, too. No word on the syntax for DECnet, or commands/utilities available. Marc Kenig ...abnjh!cbspt002
gwyn@brl-vgr.ARPA (07/03/84)
DEC salesman: You don't really want UNIX; our VNX product is JUST LIKE UNIX