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Article #228Re: Favorite operating systems query
From: stevem
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1986 03:40
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1986 03:40
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In article <452@geowhiz.UUCP> larry@geowhiz.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes: >In article <339@valid.UUCP> sbs@valid.UUCP (Steven Brian McKechnie Sargent) writes: >> >> 1) For the VMS fans out there: what's your favorite feature(s) of >> the system? Why do you like it? How does it help you? > >I think that the main complaints with Unix from VMSites are > >1) ... >9) I thought it was an excellent list Larry, with one omission (the problem I'm grappling with now). DEC has over the years developed an excellent layered system of hardware and software that allows the addition of more machines without putting one bunch of users off by themselves on a separate machine. In fact to the users, Vax-clustering makes many machines look like one. There's no graceful way with UNIX to add a machine and not find that you have to segregate some users from others. -- -- Steven A. Minneman (Fujitsu America Inc, San Jose, Ca) !seismo!amdahl!fai!stevem or !ihnp4!pesnta!fai!stevem The best government is no government at all.
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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!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!nsc!amdahl!fai!stevem From: stevem@fai.UUCP Newsgroups: net.decus,net.unix,net.usenix Subject: Re: Favorite operating systems query Message-ID: <222@fai.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Jun-86 23:40:40 EDT Article-I.D.: fai.222 Posted: Thu Jun 19 23:40:40 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Jun-86 07:20:53 EDT References: <339@valid.UUCP> <452@geowhiz.UUCP> Reply-To: stevem@fai.UUCP (Steve Minneman) Distribution: net Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc. Lines: 27 Keywords: VMS, Multics, UNIX, fanaticism