MB wrote:
VMS also had a great command line language. (Called "DCL", IIRC).
You
could automate many tasks.

Windows has several different scripting languages available. Don't
assume that the DOS shell is the only shell available.

Even create simple apps with a little more
work. Also, saying that most crashes are due to fill in the blank,
is missing the point. The point is that VMS did not crash.

On bad hardware it did. Most Windows 2K/XP/Vista crashes are
hardware.

What you're saying, whether you realize it or not, is that a VAX or
Alpha with VMS didn't crash. You're ignoring the reliability of the
hardware. Put OpenVMS on a non-ECC Itanic with crap RAM and work it
hard and you're likely to get a surprise.

Windows is
where the money is, and VMS is extinct, so that's where I spend my
time out of the woodshop. Mac, with it's unix underpinning might be
interesting to try...

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