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- From: jms@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem)
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- Subject: Re: DR bad, VAX PRO good
- Message-ID: <3SEP199210004588@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 17:00:00 GMT
- References: <01GO9M76948G94DQA0@MONMOUTH-etdl1.Army.MIL>,<1SEP199210172255@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu> <1992Sep1.221944.12789@cpu.com>
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- In article <1992Sep1.221944.12789@cpu.com>, gwlester@cpu.com writes...
- >
- > The problem that at least some of us have is that we don't have time to
- >read all of sources of information. I have eliminate DR from my list due to
- >the amount of material that I had to read to get new and useful information.
- >
-
- Well, it's a tradeoff, isn't it? You can read nothing that ever comes to
- you, and spend all your time running around re-inventing the wheel. Or,
- you can do nothing but read all day long, have all of the answers, and no
- time to do your job. I still claim that you can't be an effective and
- useful system manager without reading DR. If all you do is kernel mode
- programming, that's one thing. But who has a job description that narrow
- these days?
-
- >P.S. - I have a Matco mug for pointing out to DR that VMS does *NOT* run on
- > any of the PDP-11 series.
-
- It depends on whether you consider a VAX-11/780 a PDP-11. If you define a
- PDP-11 as a system which runs PDP-11 code "native" (i.e., without software
- emulators, as in the newer VAX systems), the VAX-11/780 is a fine PDP-11
- which happens to run VMS. Also, since you can microcode it yourself, it
- can run WPS-8 as well (and does).
-
- jms
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