I first encountered a VAX in the late 80's/early 90's on a project to port an ICL 2903 George assembler system onto the VAX into C (yes horrible idea and been

I first encountered a VAX in the late 80's/early 90's on a project to port an ICL 2903 George assembler system onto the VAX into C (yes horrible idea and been better to redevelop, though somebody in marketing dropped the ball so). I'd not done much C programming, but the environment on the VAX and the profiler was and felt so far ahead of anything I'd used before. This was the days when Borland C (think was turbo C back then) was a thing. Fond memories and since then having touched many different systems, for me, was the one that stood out a the biggest wow, how brilliant is this moment. This was in the days before GUI's saturated development environments and for me, even today, multiple shells and vi, still my comfort zone. Sad that VAX never prevailed further, fond memories, as with many systems/environments that have come and gone, but when you start out programming with punched cards, much time passes and much has changed and those wow moments - well, been a while since I had one of those epiphany moments, though finding these forums I would rank up there as one of those.