1 May
1999
1 May
'99
2:15 p.m.
Because to some of us VAX == UNIX ? I did my first UNIX
port from a VAX780
running 4.x BSD to a DG machine. UCBVAX ran UNIX and all of the other Vaxen
I had access to ran UNIX. The "cool" people hacked UNIX on the VAX, the
"suits" used VMS and Datatrieve to print accounting records and such, what
fun was that?
OK, I see the problem is now, I'm not a big BSD fan, despite being a big
UNIX fan. If I was a BSD fan then I'd probably be interested in having it
running on one of my PDP-11's or VAXen, as it is I do have OpenBSD running
on one of my Alpha's as VMS doesn't support what I need that system to do.
Also, I can see where a production VMS system wouldn't be a lot of fun, but
since I've got my own cluster I find it a blast to play with, and am
currently playing around with a little programming, when I can find the
time.
Another downside of VMS is you can't just run down to the local bookstore
to find books on it, although the local techinical bookstore does get a few
in.
Still as a OS nut, I maintain that VMS is the right OS for VAXen :^)
Mainly because I like to run as many different OS's as possible, and I'm
quite happy only running 2 or three flavors of UNIX.
Zane
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