Questions tagged [vms]
Questions about the VMS operating system, originally known as VAX/VMS and later as OpenVMS.
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What is the line separator (end of line) character of textfiles of the VMS operating system?
CP/M and MS-DOS had several characteristics are derived from DEC operating systems, such as Control-Z EOF, the coloned device name (drive letter) prefix of file identifiers, 3-character filename ...
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Did VMS ever acquire filesystem cross-links?
Both Unix and Windows, quite early, acquired cross-links in their filesystems, such that the filesystems are not trees, but general directed graphs. I'm curious about whether this was an inevitable ...
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"Intrusion countermeasures" in VMS 4.2
In 1986-1987 I was an admin for a VMS 4.2 (or 4.1 or 4.3) system in college. I recall that at some point, there was a problem that caused the DECwriter console to spew messages to the effect of "...
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What did Richard Stallman have against VMS?
Richard Stallman of course was an advocate of free software, and VMS was proprietary, so he would've disapproved of it on that basis alone. (To be clear, I am not discussing here whether he was right ...
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