Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted

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From: Bill Beebe
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 00:18

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In article <1992Dec20.164501.291@rlgsc.com> gezelter@rlgsc.com writes:
>In article <mcdonald.624@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:

>> The Unix way has proven to be the best way; its one of the biggest
>> reasons VMS is a current sales disaster.
>> 
>> The doc for your own ISAM is maybe 2 pages long.
>> 
>And the doc for each of the other ISAMs written because "mine is 
>better" is also two pages long, leading to thousands of pages of 
>documentation covering equivalent facilities with small 
>differences.

VMS is a sales disaster because the VAX is a sales disaster.
DEC has always maintained that its business is selling software. And
having lived and coded under both environments, I find that VMS is no
better or worse than Unix. Both require high performance hardware
to run adequately, both require lots of system resources to run
adequately, and both have equal numbers of vociferous bigots.

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From: wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe)
Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 00:18:27 GMT
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