From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Pipes and PRISM
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 13:38:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220301213845.GH7237@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFH29tqu2n0_o=0c1jRscToTamdAA1qd6MH3X+bnU478=jHehQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 04:25:23PM -0500, Richard Salz wrote:
> The VMS process model is different from Unix; like TOPS-20, it was more a
> shared address space. I don't remember details, but I do recall that a
> "logout" call in a DCL script logged you out of the system.
>
> Did Softway Systems make kernel changes? I know MSFT's original Posix plan
> was to do it all in user-space. WSL is a Ubuntu port, so if Softway had
> kernel changes, I could see how that made things simpler.
My memory is that the lower level stuff in NT is actually quite pleasant
and makes it easy to do POSIX on top.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-01 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-01 16:56 Paul Winalski
2022-03-01 21:25 ` Richard Salz
2022-03-01 21:38 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2022-03-01 21:49 ` Clem Cole
2022-03-01 22:09 ` Clem Cole
2022-03-02 18:51 ` Paul Winalski
2022-03-01 23:42 ` silas poulson
2022-03-02 1:18 ` Clem Cole
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