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- From: pechter@ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Pechter)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
- Message-ID: <1801@ocpt.ccur.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:01:18 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.062544.5838@news.columbia.edu> <31DEC199210495450@author.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp.,Information Services
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- In article <31DEC199210495450@author.gsfc.nasa.gov> rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler) writes:
- >I still haven't decided whether I like RSX or UNIX better, unless I'll be doing
- >real-time.
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- I think Unix is easier to deal with. I'm an old DEC guy and I never warmed
- up to RSX11 until M+. I preferred RT11 and RSTS to RSX. Now IAS was
- interesting.
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- >
- >And I'll still take VMS over UNIX any day. VMS owes some of its human
- >interface concepts to UNIX, and both should learn of few new tricks from each
- >other.
- >
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- The major advantage of Unix over VMS is it's redirection... Also the device
- independant nature of i/o. Also the directory structure.
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- VMS has the file structure (more resilient than SVR1-3 and even the UCB
- fast file system). The easier command language to learn (if not to code
- in). Better integrated networking (Berkeley learned a lot on developing
- rcp from decnet's copy node::file.
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- VMS has better error recovery due to tighter integration of hardware
- and software (this costs a lot in portability).
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-
- Bill
- (looking for a VMS clone to go on my 386 along with my Unix clone)
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