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In article <1992Dec14.041235.4661@panix.com>, tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot
Simon) writes:

|>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...)

Problem with O/Ss is that in order to solve everyone's needs they need a lot of
functionality. UNIX got by by offering a very limited amount of functionality
which was exactly what a hacker running simple single user tasks with a minimnum
of complex file handling requirements.

In the 70's everyone realized that to make databases run fast you had to put
sophisticated data structures onto the disk and handle them in the I/O subsystem
rather than the processor. Nowadays suggesting such systems receives hosts of
flames from the people who have accepted the sequential file structures only
line.

Yep by all means lets replace VMS with something better. But for heavens sake
lets not let UNIX win. If UNIX became the only O/S standard we would never get
anything better.



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Phill Hallam-Baker