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Article #223Re: Favorite operating systems query
From: Leo Wilson
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1986 03:48
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1986 03:48
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I really wanted to just spectate on this one...
The real problem with VMS is that it takes !screwdrivers and wrenches!
to install it. I don't even see it as really being a *software* product
(from a consumer's point of view) unless it is available for all my
current and future hardware.
VMS is really a GREAT os, with lots lots of plusses and only (count 'em)
ONE detractor: It's locked into a single vendor's hardware. (Oh, yeah,
expensive hardware, and pretty much state of two years ago's art, too.)
Oh, I have my druthers & UNIX answers lots more of them than VMS does,
but as far as I can see VMS has UNIX whipped all to hell in any work
environment other than ed or r&d. I have been looking, too. I'll
never actually USE it, tho, until I have the option to buy other companies'
*competitively* priced hardware.
How about it, DEC, turn VMS into purely a software product and "remember
UNIX" will become ONE word!
Trademarks: UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T
VMS is a registered trademark of Digital Equiptment Corp.
DEC is probably a trademark of Digital Equiptment Corp.
(if i left anyone out, sue me & i'll move out of the
country before it gets to court.)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!rocksvax!sunybcs!leo From: leo@sunybcs.UUCP (Leo Wilson) Newsgroups: net.decus,net.unix,net.usenix Subject: Re: Favorite operating systems query Message-ID: <121@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Jun-86 23:48:33 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.121 Posted: Thu Jun 19 23:48:33 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Jun-86 12:28:47 EDT References: <339@valid.UUCP> <452@geowhiz.UUCP> <740@eneevax.UUCP> Reply-To: leo@gort.UUCP (Leo Wilson) Distribution: net Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 25 Keywords: VMS, UNIX Summary: Lets see VMS become a *SOFTWARE* product!