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- From: wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe)
- Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 00:18:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.001827.25290@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Dec19.012355.26665@ll.mit.edu> <mcdonald.624@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec20.164501.291@rlgsc.com>
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- In article <1992Dec20.164501.291@rlgsc.com> gezelter@rlgsc.com writes:
- >In article <mcdonald.624@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
-
- >> The Unix way has proven to be the best way; its one of the biggest
- >> reasons VMS is a current sales disaster.
- >>
- >> The doc for your own ISAM is maybe 2 pages long.
- >>
- >And the doc for each of the other ISAMs written because "mine is
- >better" is also two pages long, leading to thousands of pages of
- >documentation covering equivalent facilities with small
- >differences.
-
- VMS is a sales disaster because the VAX is a sales disaster.
- DEC has always maintained that its business is selling software. And
- having lived and coded under both environments, I find that VMS is no
- better or worse than Unix. Both require high performance hardware
- to run adequately, both require lots of system resources to run
- adequately, and both have equal numbers of vociferous bigots.
-
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