Correction. There was no ‘ty’ command in VMS, or rather the DCL shell of VMS. There was however TYPE command (case insensitive), with a bunch of qualifiers some of which would control how much output you’d see on the screen at a time, etc. With VT terminals there was no scrolling back, of course. Still unsurpassed (DCL is) by any UNIX shell, or the pitiful shell in Windows.
Still unsurpassed (DCL is) by any UNIX shell, or the pitiful shell in Windows.
The best (bar none!) CLI user interface I ever used was NOS/VE’s CCL (Cyber Control Language). CDC had adopted the best of VMS and hybridized it with the best of UNIX.
Unfortunately, NOS/VE was expensive (like VMS) proprietary (like VMS) and only ran on one hardware platform (like VMS) but didn’t have ANY userbase UNlike VMS which was everywhere.
Oh, yeah, it had file cycles like VMS. You mess up “DATA01.DAT” you can just copy “DATA01.DAT.1” over it and start over. Nowadays, everybody seems to use snapshot directories, but that’s is not as robust...
(/end `Grandpa Simpson’ mode)