Got a question....PDP? VAX?

<has yet, true clustering. You can grow huge systems modularly and only <have to maintain one system disk. VMS is one of the few that can have a disk farm and a cpu farm as a result of the clustering technology. It's nice in that my MV2000 with it's tiny 159mb disk can be a cluster member to the 3100 allowing common files and all sorts of nice things including common configuration and diskless booting. <>I heard that NT has a lot of VMS engineers behind it. < <This statement might be somewhat true. After M-Squish designed NT, they <hired one of the VMS gurus from DEC and while there have been many A few but not a lot. <modifications to NT to add more VMS like features, it has one giant <drawback, the underlying operating system is UNIX based, the Mach kernel. that and how the protected kernel is not very protected. <software interfaces. NT servers usually crash regularly, i.e. in less tha <a week, sometimes several times a day, especially if anyone is doing <development work on them. Another drawback to NT is that many software <upgrades and application installation/deinstallations require rebooting, <something unheard of with VMS. I run three Nt servers (3.51 SP4) and they are extremely reliable but not heavily loaded. My understanding the NT doesn't load well. Whats funny is a could stuff a 3100m76 in there and replace the whole lot and still have cpu left over. VMS does (over)load gracefully. Allison