Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site elsie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!mark From: mark@elsie.UUCP (Mark J. Miller) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: VMS is UNIX spelled backwards (almost) Message-ID: <4091@elsie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 08:47:21 EST Article-I.D.: elsie.4091 Posted: Tue Dec 4 08:47:21 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:49:59 EST References: <378@hou2g.UUCP> <259@desint.UUCP> Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 15 VMS was probably (surly) not a direct result of UNIX influence. However, many UNIX - inspired ideas (tree-structured filing systems, pipes, redirected-IO) had certainly found their way into the computer psyche by the time the VMS project got rolling, and this probably best explains whatever similarities there are between the two systems. Now that DEC supports ULTRIX, it will be interesting to see, in the years to come, if VMS and UNIX will ever be able to merge into a single compatable system. -- Mark J. Miller NIH/NCI/DCE/LEC UUCP: decvax!harpo!seismo!elsie!mark Phone: (301) 496-5688