what was VMS/OpenVMS written in?

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Thu Dec 2 16:10:20 CST 2010


> "Baby Duck Syndrome denotes the tendency for computer users to "imprint" on 
> the first system they learn, then judge other systems by their similarity 
> to that first system. The result is that "users generally prefer systems 
> similar to those they learned on and dislike unfamiliar systems."[1] The 
> term may have been inspired by popular understanding of the work, 
> experiences, and observations of Konrad Lorenz."
> 
> Or, for example, why I'm still running a 1984 copy of Brief as my 
> text editor in a DOS window on a dual-24" quad processor PC.

Or why I excessively favour *BSD and tcsh, being a product of the University
of California and experiencing my first Un*x shell as csh on BSDI/386.

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