Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
From:    Dumas Walker
Date:    Wed Oct 08, 2025 09:46

@VIA: CAPCITY2
>  > Pretty sure it was VMS.  This would have been 1988-92, if that helps.

> VMS was weird to me. The FS has 8.3 style all-caps filenames and reminded me o
> DOS and later CP/M when I saw that ;).

Since my only computer exposure, pre-VMS,was with DOS PCs (*), it didn't seem
too weird at the time.  ;)

(*) and, before that, with TI-99s and Commodore 64s, which were completely
different!  :D


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