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- From: imhw400@indyvax.iupui.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.142358.188@indyvax.iupui.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:23:58 -0500
- References: <FRANL.92Nov25233757@draco.centerline.com> <0f=Q_u600WBO40k2xV@andrew.cmu.edu> <BzGn32.37C@dscomsa.desy.de> <42743@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
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- In article <42743@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair) writes:
- >>6) File system limited to sequential file, forcing applications to create their
- >>own file system on top of the UNIX one, thus preventing any standardization or
- >>application independent optimization.
- >
- > This is feature, not a bug! Have you ever worked with a record
- > oriented system like VMS? You spend most of you programming time
- > defeating the file system :-(
-
- No, I don't.
-
- > No, UNIX is better for these reasons:
- >
- > pipes
- got it
- > make
- got it
- > light sub-processes
- on the way
- > the path
- got it
- > transparent networking
- Hahahahaha. Got it. Had it years earlier.
- > network file sharing
- got it
- > no RMS
- I'm sorry for you.
- > choice of shells
- got it
- > machine independant, choice of vendor freedom
- VMS runs on two architectures now, maybe more later
- > vendor price and speed wars
- VMS has to compete too. And it does.
- > better hardware
- Hahahahaha
- > graphics
- got it
- > it does't have DEC-this DEC-that all over (gak!)
- The real reason surfaces!
- > simplicity
- got it
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