[geeks] amazon book reviews, something's fishy

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 @ 16:03 -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke said:

> On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> >> Perhaps he ran Oracle on VMS or OS/390.
> >
> > ...and the finger-bleeding insanity of VMS commands didn't bother him?
> 
> I guess it depends on what you're used-to.  If I had never used Unix
> (but had used MS-DOS), I think I'd be able to approach VMS much more
> easily than Unix.  However, I was writing C code before I'd ever used
> Unix, so Unix just feels right to me.

My feeling about VMS is that the user interface is just terrible.

Too many things look the same and mean something different.

I didn't like how many commands seemed to have multiple delimiters, for
example.

However, VMS has a lot of good points too.

TOPS 10/20 had good points as well, and 20 had probably the last user
interface (command line) that made any attempt to teach a new user how
to operate the computer.

I'd like to see UNIX gets some of those old tools, because there is a
lot missing in it.

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