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- From: morphis@fnalv1.fnal.gov
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 20:40:23 GMT
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
- Message-ID: <4kjqnn$s8b@fnnews.fnal.gov>
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- james@amber.biology.gatech.edu (James McIninch) writes:
- >morphis@fnalv1.fnal.gov wrote:
- >: In article <3160B659.D3B@mcs.com>, Mike Young <mikey@mcs.com> writes:
-
- >: >Does anyone else find it odd that everything (it seems) runs on a Power
- >: >PC, but not OS/2?
- >
- >: no, OS/2 isn't on PPC for business reasons.
- >
- >You can get OS/2 for the PowerPC, but you must order it directly from IBM.
-
- True, but it is apparently like pulling teeth to get them to sell it to you.
-
- >As far as IBM is concerned there's little reason to expend the money or
- >effort to market OS/2 for the PowerPC (since the most popular PowerPC
- >platform is the Power Macintoshes and few Power Mac hardware developpers
- >seemed interested in writing device drivers for Power Mac peripherals for
- >OS/2).
-
- Hmmm, I hadn't heard this reason before.
-
- >: 1)IBM wants to sell its unix on the PPC and would lose some unix sales
- >: if they put OS/2 on it
- >
- >Doubtful. For the most part, OS/2 really is poised as a desktop OS that is
-
- It looks to me that with OS/2 server coming and the new bundling with Merlin
- there is going to be some significant overlap in the near future. In any
- case the complaint in *.os2.* is that the AIX folks wanted the powerpc to
- themselves... take it with a grain of salt
-
- >: In any case VMS is superiour (sp?) in all ways to UNIX! so there!
- >: (and he quickly leaves stage left)
- >
- > :) I have to admit VMS' RMS is pretty cool. Other than that...
-
- <bemused smile> that's interesting, most Unix based VMS bashers consider RMS
- (file types in particular) to be a major liability ... clearly for hacking
- around (that is meant in a positive way) Unix has certain advantages*, from
- a system management POV I think VMS has some serious strengths... in between,
- to each his own.
-
- Robert
-
- *disclaimer: the following is running at the mouth by someone who does more
- lurking than contributing on comp.os.vms.
-
- (by fall VMS will finally get pipes, I will be interested to see just how
- they are going to implement them, it is amusing that VMS is more complient
- with various UNIXish standards than some Unices... but in the real world
- if you want to port code that requires a lot of forking off of processes
- the difference in process creation is so great that you are going to take
- a big hit in performance moving from Unix to VMS)
-