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There Once Was A System Called VMS Of Cycles By No Means Abstemious.
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There once was a system called VMS
Of cycles by no means abstemious.
It's chock full of hacks
And runs on a VAX
And makes my poor stomach all squeamious.
-- The Great Quux
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VMS /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....
VMS: /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....
This piece is chock full of omissions.
System/3! System/3! See how it runs! See how it runs!
Its monitor loses so totally It runs all its programs in RPG!...
Twas midnight, and the UNIX hacks Did gyre and gimble in their cave All mimsy was the CS-VAX And Cory raths outgrabe.
"Beware the software rot, my son! The faults that bite, the jobs that thrash!...
Twas midnight, and the UNIX hacks Did gyre and gimble in their cave All mimsy was the CS-VAX And Cory raths outgrave.
Beware the software rot, my son! The faults that bite, the jobs that thrash!...
The worst thing you can do to a VAX/VMS system is log in.
-- Heard at a DECUS VAX Performance Semina...