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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: New VSI post on Youtube
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:40:01 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-08-18, Michael Kraemer <m.kraemer@gsi.de> wrote:
> On 18.08.2024 03:59, Dave Froble wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, one could argue that paper and ink are also "not VMS" ...
>>
>> VMS is the OS ...
>> Documentation is, well, whatever it is ...
>>
>
> well, one could argue that a real OS should not depend on another one to 
> be fully functional.

That has not been true for VMS since physical terminals were replaced
with terminal emulators.

Simon.

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