:VMS: /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX
minicomputer; one of the seven or so environments that loom largest
in hacker folklore. Many UNIX fans generously concede that VMS
would probably be the hacker's favorite commercial OS if UNIX
didn't exist; though true, this makes VMS fans furious. One major
hacker gripe with VMS concerns its slowness --- thus the following
limerick:
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
See also {VAX}, {{TOPS-10}}, {{TOPS-20}}, {{UNIX}}, {runic}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
minicomputer; one of the seven or so environments that loom largest
in hacker folklore. Many UNIX fans generously concede that VMS
would probably be the hacker's favorite commercial OS if UNIX
didn't exist; though true, this makes VMS fans furious. One major
hacker gripe with VMS concerns its slowness --- thus the following
limerick:
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
See also {VAX}, {{TOPS-10}}, {{TOPS-20}}, {{UNIX}}, {runic}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- 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.... - 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.... - TOPS-10:: /tops-ten/ n. DEC's proprietary OS for the fabled {PDP-10}
machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct.
A fountain of hacker folklore; see {Appendix A}.... - TWENEX /twe'neks/ n.
The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC
-- the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 -- preferred by most
PDP-10 hackers over TOPS-10 (that i
by those who were not ITS or WAITS partisans). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Beranek &... - TOPS-10 /tops-ten/ n.
DEC's proprietary OS for the
fabled PDP-10 machines, long a favorite of hackers but now
effectively extinct.
A fountain of hacker folklore; see Appendix A.... - unic: adj. Syn. {obscure}. VMS fans sometimes refer to UNIX as
`Runix'
UNIX fans return the compliment by expanding VMS to `Very Messy Syntax' or `Vachement Mauvais Syst`eme' (French... - One of the questions that comes up all the time i
How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many years ago.... - unic adj.
Syn. obscure. VMS fans sometimes refer to
Unix as `Runix'
Unix fans return the compliment by expanding VMS to `Very Messy Syntax' or `Vachement Mauvais Systè... - One of the questions that comes up all the time i
How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many years ago....
