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- From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker)
- Subject: Re: VAX BSD final answer...
- Message-ID: <BzAEsz.Ipy@dscomsa.desy.de>
- Sender: usenet@dscomsa.desy.de (usenet)
- Reply-To: Hallam@zeus02.desy.de
- Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Experiment ZEUS bei HERA
- References: <DGRAY.92Dec2000244@menudo.uh.edu> <Byx3D5.326@dscomsa.desy.de> <1992Dec14.041235.4661@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 06:17:23 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Dec14.041235.4661@panix.com>, tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot
- Simon) writes:
-
- |>In article <Byx3D5.326@dscomsa.desy.de> Hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:
- |>>In article <DGRAY.92Dec2000244@menudo.uh.edu>, dgray@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis
- |>Gray
- |>>Jr.) writes:
- |>>
- |>>|>It doesn't look like there is a free unix for the vax. That's too
- |>>|>bad, since there really isn't a really good OS for the vax anywhere.
- |>>
- |>>Except of course for VMS which did a decade ago all the things that UNIX has
- |>>only just started to.
- |>
- |>Except of course for VMS, which was as slow and ungainly a decade ago as UNIX
- |>has only just started to become.
- |>
- |>(Now if there were only a TOPS-20 or ITS port for the vax...)
-
- Problem with O/Ss is that in order to solve everyone's needs they need a lot of
- functionality. UNIX got by by offering a very limited amount of functionality
- which was exactly what a hacker running simple single user tasks with a minimnum
- of complex file handling requirements.
-
- In the 70's everyone realized that to make databases run fast you had to put
- sophisticated data structures onto the disk and handle them in the I/O subsystem
- rather than the processor. Nowadays suggesting such systems receives hosts of
- flames from the people who have accepted the sequential file structures only
- line.
-
- Yep by all means lets replace VMS with something better. But for heavens sake
- lets not let UNIX win. If UNIX became the only O/S standard we would never get
- anything better.
-
-
-
- --
-
- Phill Hallam-Baker
-