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n8chz
@n8chz@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@toomanysecrets My fondest memory of #VMS is of EVE, the "extensible #VAX editor", a sort of easter egg which could be activated by invoking the editor command as "edit/tpu" instead of simply "edit." It came with its own scripting language, that included functions that would copy a rectangular grid of characters to different "coordinates." It was fun. I had some of the prettiest quoted text blocks on #Usenet with that editor.

I also really loved the online documentation. Much more plain-English and much more complete (encyclopedic, really) than UNIX man pages of the same era.

:chef's kiss:

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Martin Bishop
@toomanysecrets@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

VMS (Virtual Memory System) was a landmark operating system developed by Digital Equipment Corporation ( #DEC ) between 1975 and 1977, in conjunction with the design of the #VAX (Virtual Address eXtension) architecture. Conceived as a next-generation environment to succeed the #PDP11 line and its RSX operating systems, VMS was engineered to exploit the full capabilities of 32-bit virtual memory addressing.
(follow the thread) 👇🏻

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jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

I Bought a $200K VAX on eBay – Now It Runs My Smart Lights! - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-iA_9U3WTc

#vax #retrocomputing #smarthome

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