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Article #3263Re: Algol68 (and standards diatribe)
From: Jay Maynard
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1991 19:24
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1991 19:24
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In article <4394@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>In article <1991Mar29.222133.2819@cl.cam.ac.uk> nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) writes:
>>Someone else's quote: "From an MVS viewpoint, it is difficult to
>>distinguish UNIX and MS-DOS".
>That's Richard O'Keefe's. To me, it suggests serious problems with
>an MVS viewpoint.
No...all it says is that MVS is *different* from the interactively-oriented
philosophy inherent in both Unix and MS-DOS. The differences between MVS
and either are far, far greater than the differences between the two. There's
a simple reason: just as a 3090-600J is designed to do a different kind of
work from a Sequent, so MVS is designed to do a different kind of work from
Unix.
...Jay (a senior MVS systems programmer in real life)
--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!lib!thesis1.med.uth.tmc.edu From: jmaynard@thesis1.med.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.arch Subject: Re: Algol68 (and standards diatribe) Message-ID: <4901@lib.tmc.edu> Date: 1 Apr 91 19:24:40 GMT References: <1991Mar28.011025.16337@ico.isc.com> <1991Mar29.222133.2819@cl.cam.ac.uk> <4394@skye.ed.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu Followup-To: comp.lang.misc Organization: University of Texas Medical School at Houston Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: thesis1.med.uth.tmc.edu