2 Mar
2022
2 Mar
'22
3:38 a.m.
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.