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Re: VAX BSD final answer...

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From: Thor Lancelot Simon
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:12
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In article <Byx3D5.326@dscomsa.desy.de> Hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:
>In article <DGRAY.92Dec2000244@menudo.uh.edu>, dgray@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis Gray
>Jr.) writes:
>
>|>It doesn't look like there is a free unix for the vax.  That's too
>|>bad, since there really isn't a really good OS for the vax anywhere.
>
>Except of course for VMS which did a decade ago all the things that UNIX has
>only just started to.

Except of course for VMS, which was as slow and ungainly a decade ago as UNIX
has only just started to become.

(Now if there were only a TOPS-20 or ITS port for the vax...)
-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	 tls@panix.COM

"Better be careful there.  John might decide to start taking legal action
against people who refuse to buy stuff from him."  --Kevin McBride
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!panix!tls
From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Subject: Re: VAX BSD final answer...
Message-ID: <1992Dec14.041235.4661@panix.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:12:35 GMT
References: <DGRAY.92Dec2000244@menudo.uh.edu> <Byx3D5.326@dscomsa.desy.de>
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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