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_at_kerberos.davies.net.au
> | "If God had wanted soccer played in the
> | air, the sky would be painted green"
>
Yup... FLX file exchange, SYE error log formatter -- both 11
compatibility images gone by 4.x.
Bill
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Received on Sat Feb 02 2002 - 10:24:13 GMT