Maybe in some respects. Though I don't remember too much VMS, I know enough to remember what a god-send the Unix shells (and associated stdio tools) were compar

Maybe in some respects. Though I don't remember too much VMS, I know enough to remember what a god-send the Unix shells (and associated stdio tools) were compared to other command environments spawned (pardon the pun) by batch systems. (The versioned files were both cool and annoying FWIR)