On 2020-06-09 07:27 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
I still miss VMS's file versioning; edit FILE.TXT;1 and you'd get a new file FILE.TXT;2 appear as well. Opening FILE.TXT would always open the most recent version. So very simple and solid.
I also remember the keystroke playback, after a crash. One day I was working on a text document, when the system crashed. After it came back up, I watched as it repeated my keystrokes! There were also the gold keys in the text editor. Incidentally, on one occasion, I was able to get into a co-workers account and add a logout command to his login script. ;-) BTW, when I was taking Fortran (Actually WATFIV. I still have the text "WATFIV: structured programming and problem solving" by D. M. Etter on my book shelf.) at Ryerson, I did my homework on the VAX. I was taking it at night school. Rather than trying to find a free working terminal, I'd go home and dial into the VAX. I was using Procomm Plus on an XT clone and had to dial a gateway, which would connect me to the IBM mainframe at Ryerson.