TOPS-20 EXEC

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1 total messages Started by ucbvaxworks Mon, 15 Mar 1982 19:34

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Author: ucbvaxworks
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1982 19:34

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>From Joe.Newcomer@Cmu-10a Thu Mar 11 12:25:58 1982
The last I looked, DEC was nut fussy at all about releasing the source code
to the EXEC; for a modest number of dollars you can get a source license
but I don't know if that is a site license or a processor license.  Modest
is under $10K, which on a typical $750,000 KL20 just ain't all that much
additional.

One major difference between Unix and TOPS-20 is that on Unix I felt a
compulsion to rewrite the shell because it was so bad, but never had the
time to engage in the compulsion.  I would like to do a few tweaks on
the TOPS-20 EXEC, which has it s own  problems, but they are not a
major departure from the basic philosophy of the TOPS-20 EXEC.  In the
case of Unix, I would never have considered using the shell code at all,
except possibly to see how some bizarre interface to the kernel was done.
It is such a poor piece ofinterface that I found it a constant aggravation
every time I typed a command.
					joe

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