J. Clarke wrote:
MB wrote:
On Nov 1, 3:54 pm, dpb wrote:
Thomas G. Marshall wrote:
Stephen M said something like:
VAX assembler & BLISS
Ah....a DEC old-timer.
Started with PDP-11/C. Vax was a major step up. BTW, I've moved on
to
unix and now to windoze and still maintain that vax/vms was a great
OS
- close to crash proof. It still amazes me that after twenty years,
windows is still lacking features present in vax/vms...

I'm curious as to what those features are.

"Nearly crash-proof" as a start... (In fact, I don't believe the the
VAX when I was using it ever had a fault/failure that was OS related in
the eight years I was there...one hardware failure that I remember was
the only non-scheduled downtime I remember ever.)

Multi-user comes to mind...

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