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- From: zeus@vxcrna.cern.ch
- Subject: Re: VAX/VMS extensions conference
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.122556.1@vxcrna.cern.ch>
- Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System)
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- References: <921105094129.d7be@menvax.restena.lu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 11:25:56 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <921105094129.d7be@menvax.restena.lu>, GLOESENER@MENVAX.RESTENA.LU writes:
- >
- > Hello world,
- >
- > Is theire a known address where to mail proposals for future extensions for
- > VMS ? In this context it might be possible to launch a discussion about such
- > extensions in this list if theire are people willing to participate in such
- > a discussion.
-
- If DEC are listening, what I would like to see is a replacement for DCL.
-
- Something that combines the functionality of REXX and the proposed object
- oriented interface for WNT would be nice.
-
- Oh yes and I want a subset of it to run on the OSF/1 machines and ULTRIX.
- They don't seem to have caught on to the idea of a command line interface
- for UNIX yet (ObUI). I occasionaly think of reverse engineering the DCL
- tables to produce somthing for the ULTRIX boxes we let the users have (at
- this site we are sadists, we give the users UNIX and MVS-NEWLIB (titter)
- and keep the VMS machines for ourselves, it going to be fun when the alpha
- arives and we won't let them use 'em). But why bother, the UNIX shell is
- good, right it must be, look at how long it's been arround, same for FORTRAN
- and COBOL, nobody could ever do better than 1960s technology built on a
- spare PDP-8 by a grad student at 4am one morning after a hard game of
- wumpus!
-
- The main extension to VMS that I would like to see is threads... oh hang on
- it's got them already...
-
- Actualy there is a major reason why I would like to take a SCSI (say) disk
- and dual host it from both a UNIX and a VMS box. Unfortch. would have to run
- the UNIX file system (yetch). Any progress on that yet? (The disk in question
- being 500 Gb so you have to twiddle things a bit for the limits of the file
- systems... ho hum.) At the mo we are using an IBM 9000 as a big intelligent disk
- controller.
-
-
- Phill Hallam-Baker
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