R. D. Davis wrote:
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Mike Cheponis wrote:
Ahhh, what's this "VMS" thing
y'all are wasting bandwidth on? I've heard
of a little-used and quite obsolete program that ran on some dec hardware
called "V-Mess" - is this the same thing?
Appears so. Methinks they're discussing that fun thing to play with,
that runs on VAXen, which has more neat features than UNIX yet never
managed to become as useful as UNIX, but is much better than anything
that Microsoft ever even thought of. ;-)
We're discussing that wonderous OS that runs on VAXen *AND* Alpha's. That
OS which is more useful that UNIX if you know what you're doing :^)
Is not what the world needs a good VMS/UNIX hybrid OS?
All the
Actually I'm pretty happy with a VMS/MacOS Hybrid system. Put a MacOS
front-end running X-Windows and stick a VMS Cluster on the backend. Totally
rocks!
benefits of UNIX and VMS would surely drive Microsoft
into the
In other words add true clustering, killer stability, awsome utilities, and
good documentation, to a UNIX system? Shoot UNIX is already so far ahead of
Windows it isn't funny :^) Besides remember how much VMS tech Microsoft has
purchased to put in Windows 2000.
ground... that is, it it weren't for those pesky
average consumers
with lots of purchasing power who know mostly nothing about computers
and operating systems who get conned into wanting to purchase Peecees
running Windoze.
Ugh, scary way of putting it. I firmly believe that a person should not be
allowed to touch let alone BUY a computer until they get a "Computer Drivers
License"!
Zane