Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: VAX (was: Why I've Dropped In) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 08:28:52 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: <20250807082852.00003930@gmail.com> References: <0c857b8347f07f3a0ca61c403d0a8711@www.novabbs.com> <01b88164d4f0295f1ec6c5a11dc52c3e@www.novabbs.org> <10690gr$3klfa$1@dont-email.me> <2025Jul29.104514@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <106atpj$22fe$1@gal.iecc.com> <2025Jul30.075918@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2025Aug1.191648@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2025Aug2.112817@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <106m6g5$1atss$3@dont-email.me> <2025Aug4.192324@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <106qted$2adep$1@dont-email.me> <20250804221213.00006e3b@yahoo.com> <106r4a2$2c523$3@dont-email.me> <20250804235451.00005e01@yahoo.com> <106trf0$2vn0g$2@dont-email.me> <106u9cq$336o5$3@dont-email.me> <20250806082803.00002b37@gmail.com> <1070pf7$3m69k$7@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:28:57 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0490a4cb91035f688bb39682abf3b577"; logging-data="24885"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19zJNC8PG/FhZIRpU56etY5Fz7PDriikPA=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:6eXWup7uc9KFbgcggZweT7h1ES8= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.arch:113052 alt.folklore.computers:231562 On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 23:45:44 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > It added its own misfeatures, though. Unfortunately, yes. "User areas" in particular are just a completely useless bastard child of proper subdirectories and something like TOPS-10's programmer/project pairs; even making user area 0 a "common area" accessible from any of the others would've helped, but they didn't do that. It's a sign of how misconceived they were that MS-DOS (in re-implementing CP/M) dropped them entirely and nobody complained, then added real subdirectories later.