From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!G:wing
Newsgroups: net.works
Title: Re: Bandwidth, encodings, abbreviations and command language.
Article-I.D.: populi.275
Posted: Wed Aug  4 09:03:36 1982
Received: Thu Aug  5 01:20:14 1982

To make a rebuttal to the last news item posted on this subject from
ARPAVAX:CSVAX:mhtsa!eagle!harpo!decvax!utzoo!watmath!idallen :

The command language for VAX/VMS IS memorable, at least to a point.  Some things
are a little weird, i.e. using a command file, deleting something from a queue,
but are for the most part memorable.  The help system on here is somewhat
cryptic, but it is pretty good and has fast response, unlike "man."  One main
reason for the site I am at (not Populi, but RIX) chose VAX/VMS is that it DOES
have a more human oriented command language that one can understand.  Another
reason was that some of the possibily better system available when this system
was booted up for the first time were not available for VAX-11/780's.
And, by the way, I didn't miss your point, you missed mine...
Live Long And Prosper, and May The Force Be With You.

					The One And Only,

					Philip L. Wing
					U.C. at Berkeley
					ETA Region IX/DOL

P.S.  If you know how to send stuff by mail to the Lawerence Berkeley
Laboratory Vax/Unix, you could probably bounce something to RIX.  My account
name there is the same as here...