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In article <1993Jan21.143909.5254@mksol.dseg.ti.com> pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com writes:
>>We are hoping to obtain a DEC 3000/400 AXP but have to convince
>>our management that this is going to be a good buy. There are
>>those amongst us that would rather invest in SUN Microsystems.
>>We already possess a VAX4000 and several SUNs, both systems
>>support SAS/SPSX and a bunch of maths packages for graphics,
>>simulation and optimisation.

>We've used the following arguments:
>  6) If the decision is made to run Unix or OSF, the AXP can.  The SPARC can't
>     run VMS.
No, but there is a VMS library emulation available on Suns from our company,
as well as a DCL interpreter to preserve the same user environment.
>  7) VMS is compliant with all final POSIX specs (and in line with most of the
>     preliminary ones).
But VMS POSIX is slow, at last account.

I know this doesn't help your argument, but I figured some other readers
of this might want to know.
-- 
 Jim Reiss (jim@accelr8.com)    Accelr8 Technology, Denver, Colorado, USA
 Opinions expressed above are mine.  Who else would have them?