Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Re: How do Unix and VMS compare? Message-ID: <2039@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 04:30:55 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.2039 Posted: Wed Jun 20 04:30:55 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 08:21:41 EDT References: <290@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP>, <666@t4test.UUCP>, <3440@brl-vgr.ARPA> <693@abnjh.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 19 > Many VMS applications (reasonably) rely on VMS features, > - virtual memory (try running SAS on UNIX:-)) You may not be able to shop around, but if you do you'll find that virtual memory isn't a "VMS feature" - virtual memory UNIXes do exist, even though AT&T hasn't released theirs yet. > I think Unix *should* be better, and of the two it is the OS w/a future. > For an interesting view see IEEE 'Computer' June 1984, "Standards Can Help > Us", C. Gordon Bell page 76. Yes, UNIX can and should be better. (And a lot of the deficiencies you mention have been fixed in some versions of UNIX.) Like it or not, it's being used for a wider range of applications that it was originally used for; some may complain about adding functionality to it, but that's life. I agree; Bell's paper is worth reading. Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy