DCL and EDT for Unix?

[Andy St. Martin]

>}You're missing the point.  The idea is not to force the user to the 
>}politically correct language.  What you should be doing is providing 
>}the mechanisms which allow the user to be most productive.  Either as
>}a transitional tool, one which simply allows the VMS/DCL user to be 
>}immediately productive on a UNIX platform, or as a very fast batch engine
>}to run VMS applications remotely, the emulations have their place.
>
>Would you teach someone accustomed to driving an atomatic to leave
>a standard shift in second all the time so that they do not have
>to learn how to drive something new? It is not a matter of forcing
>someone to use the "pollitically correct language" as you so stupidly
>put it. DCL was costum made to work well on VMS - NOT UNIX!! There
>are too many incompatibilities with UNIX, and to many little things
>that would break - and it would become an administrators nightmare.

Please, please, check your own spelling before calling someone else stupid.

I think you are still missing the point.  I'll try explaining it again.

Many of the users of high-performance UNIX machines are neither UNIX
gurus nor are they folks with computer science backgrounds who love to
learn the latest command interpreter.  These users are often physicists,
chemists, or mechanical engineers who simply want to run their simulation
or number crunching program and get the result at the printer.  They
learned how to use enough VMS to submit their batch jobs years ago.
Now they want to send the job to a faster machine so they can get their
answers back faster.  At CONVEX, we created our VMS emulation products
for these users.  We also provide a UNIX interface for the gurus.
Our user base is bigger because we addressed both customers' needs.

Further, I think companies *would* write MS-DOS emulation programs for
UNIX if they could sell it to more users.  It may offend some UNIX
purists, but it *could* make more money for the company.  Isn't that how
the game is played?

Andy St.Martin  (these are my opinions, of course; not necessarily CONVEX's)