Subj : Re: What is UNIX? (was: Hot T
To   : Dumas Walker
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Oct 04 2025 09:27:32

-=> Dumas Walker wrote to FUSION <=-

 DW> I was a professional user of z/OS until recently.  ;)  I used several
 DW> console utilities that "sat on top of" it, but I only got down to using
 DW> things from the *nix command line once or twice.

 That list reminded me of some of the "weird" UNIXes out there, like
 Primos - it ran on top of PRIME/OS on big CDC iron. That was the
 closest my college came to UNIX, it was great for teaching shell
 scripts and BASH to tons of college students, but you couldn't develop
 on it.

 This was the late '80s. After the weed-out CS classes and a class in
 assembler on a VAX 11/750, we did all of our compiling on our own PCs.
 Most people used Turbo C, but I was the oddball (go figure?), I had a
 deal from the bookstore on Microsoft QuickC, but ended up using EMACS
 as an IDE with Mark Williams C, with a BASH shell and *nix* commands
 for DOS.



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