VAX/VMS

Recently, I found another blast from my past. I used this VAX/VMS book to write many of my DEC Command Language (DCL) scripts back while at Texas Tech in the late 80's and early 90's. I really enjoyed VMS and DCL. Tech, like many universities back then, had DEC systems for mainframes and even the physics department had a MicroVax.




I liked DCL over Unix script languages since DCL used command and keywords that made sense. Unix which uses "grep" for a search command whereas DCL used "search." Tell me which one is intuitive to remember? Of course grep is probably more powerful.




Recently I was lamenting about the VAX/VMS and found out that the cancelled F-22 fighter used the VAX/VMS OS! This was pleasant surprise. Cool.