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Article #3679Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
From: You never forget your first gale
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:39
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:39
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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. Not true. Unix became popular because it was the software shipped with all the newer faster workstation and server hardware. Beginning, middle and end of story. This is obvious, it's not even worth contesting. >Also consider this: if you write that file on VMS using the VMS >proprietary method, you can't read it on any other machine using >the same code. If you did it the C/Unix way, you code will run as-is >on any machine using standard C. Even VMS. Another red herring. It's because the 'standard' C runtime library on any system is an emulation of the unix system. RMS emulations for unix are also available which would allow the same interoperability for VMS native format files. Tom O'Toole - ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu - JHUVMS system programmer Homewood Computing Facilities, Johns Hopkins University, Balto. Md. 21218 >Here comes a jet ski. >weuh weeuhh weeuhh weeuhh WEEUHH WEEUHH WEEUHH WEEUHH weeuhh weeuhh weeuhh weuh
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu!jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu!ecf_stbo From: ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (You never forget your first gale) Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted Message-ID: <21DEC199210395642@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 Sender: news@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (JHU News Administrator) Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF References: <BzGn32.37C@dscomsa.desy.de> <1gt111INNt3b@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1992Dec19.012355.26665@ll.mit.edu> <mcdonald.624@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:39:00 GMT Lines: 22