uVAX II Memory Board

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Sun Feb 4 15:40:36 2001

Zane H. Healy skrev:

>>>>from scratch. By the way, on the "Full" commercial E11, the
>>>>command is: "MOUNT HD0: RAM:/SIZE:bytes"
>>>
>>>AAAAH! I've found my unknown heritage at last!
>>>That syntax is almost exactly AmigaDOS! How can this be? My Amiga has got
>>>both
>>>a RAM: and a HD0:, as well as a "Mount" command.
>>
>> It does rather look like AmigaDOS syntax. I wonder if it has
>>any raltionship to Tripos?

>I'm drawing a blank here on Tripos, but I've noticed some simularities to
>OpenVMS in the Amiga OS. IIRC, AmigaOS development was done on something
>like a VAX-11/780. Anyway the above syntax kind of looks like something
>you'd find in a DEC OS to me.

I read an article a while ago about (I think) TOPS-20, and indeed a lot of
commands seemed familiar. I seem to recall commands such as DIR and DELETE,
and what else..? Aren't arguments human-language, too, as opposed to the
hostile UNIX -LfrDb style arguments?

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Received on Sun Feb 04 2001 - 15:40:36 GMT

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