6 Apr
2005
6 Apr
'05
1:08 p.m.
Hi,
Dan Williams said:
No Flame wars.....
But unless you get an old microvax running ultrix, vaxen run better
with vms. If you want to run unix cheaply you are better off with an
older Sun or HP machine, you can get these cheap (less then 100) from
ebay. Also you get the choice of running *bsd as well. You can also
get sgi machines cheaply but the os is harder to come by.
That is an option I am considering, especially an hp, but that's more a
"take it home, plug it in and go" thing and where's the fun in that :-)
I'd like to try vms, but I know nothing about it never having run across
it, but I've use unix on-and-off since the SVR3 days - besides the vms
licencing looks a bit of a palaver...
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!