16 Mar
2017
16 Mar
'17
7:18 p.m.
VMS source fiche was very common of sites owned by large corporations. Their IT staff
used it to research bugs... and as sample code for writing their own drivers etc...
-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Krewat <krewat(a)kilonet.net>
To: Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 8:53
Subject: Re: [TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX")
On 3/15/2017 8:45 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
Arthur's behavior, I think really proves my
point.... you were able
to do that because UNIX was (is) open and was being studies and used
by a lot of people had folks did have access to the source. You did
not see VMS, NT or the like having academic books written about them,
and used as models in OS classes. You would not have been able to do
that with NT or VMS.
Believe it or not, somewhere I believe I have microfiche of VMS 4.0
source code somewhere. Which reminds me, I need to do something with that.
It came from the same place as the other source code I have.