Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/10/20:41:21
Once upon a time (on 10 Feb 97 at 8:21) mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on. said:
> > with the VMS drive directly. For that you'd need a VMS daemon anyway to
> > allow access to VMS/ESA system calls (or sort of RPC which I'm not sure
> > whether it exists for VMS, probably not).
>
> Yeah NFS would work if you have access to NFS mount the drive.
And most machines has one.
> Some sort of usermode VMS program would be needed though for
> those who don't, but this goes for any OS I guess.
Exactly. But you can always use Kermit to communicate with VMS ;-))
> > It is *brand* new! Have you heard of any commercial OS still in use
> > released for free before (with sources)? I haven't.
>
> Nope, never heard of it. Just wanted to cover my ass though in
> case some smartass said "Oh yeah, what about XXXNIX?".
> :o)
;-)) With U*ices it was a reverse case - first Unix was free and only then
they made some commercial clones.
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