Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!mo@lbl-csam.ARPA From: mo@lbl-csam.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: VM/370 and CMS Message-ID: <7036@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 10:58:09 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7036 Posted: Sun Jan 6 10:58:09 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 05:05:21 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 10 As a person evaluating the possibility of transporting modern software to the VM/CMS environment, I stronly believe that CMS was in fact written by the persons who foisted CP/M on the world, because, it is essentially an EBCDIC version of CP/M running on a 32-bit machine. This opinion is based on the facilities provided by the CMS "operating system." Even OS/360 had file names longer than what CMS provides, not to mention catalog support. "What does a fellow have to do; write his own Operating System?" -Mike O'Dell