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Aucbvax.5926 fa.info-vax utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Sat Jan 23 07:06:32 1982 RMS's VMS deficiencies >From RWK@SCRC-TENEX@MIT-AI Sat Jan 23 07:02:00 1982 Date: 21 January 1982 20:20-EST From: Richard M. Stallman <RMS AT MIT-AI> To: info-vax at SANDIA

The deficiencies of VMS I described two years ago, which are in the file RMS;VMS > on MIT-AI, as far as I know have not been fixed. They add up to a lot of problems with trying to make a multi-process command environment (such as is used on ITS and Twenex) to run on VMS, plus lots of assorted uglinesses and things that can't be done.

I have edited in some comments (enclosed in '[]') and written it to AI:RWK;VMS >. While not "fixed", the situation is much improved. In particular, it is now much much easier to make the fixes, and generally not require any changes to VMS as it is distributed. Thus the enhancements could be distributed as just another package and installed by any competent system manager in 15 minutes or so.

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