Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vaxuum!dyer From: dyer@dec-vaxuum.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: How do Unix and VMS compare? Message-ID: <1839@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 08:51:06 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.1839 Posted: Thu Jun 21 08:51:06 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jun-84 02:45:33 EDT Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 34 How do Unix and VMS compare?___________________________________________________ David Chase (rbbb@RICE.ARPA) sent in a rather lengthy comparison of VMS and Unix. I'd like to add a few things, speaking as a heavy VMS user in my capacity as a programmer/analyst at DEC. > No make. No awk....Perhaps there [are] DEC program products out there that > make life bearable;... There certainly are. There's MMS (Module Management System), which is essentially make with some VMS/DCL features added. It's a DEC product. I'm not at all familiar with awk but I believe someone's gotten it to run on VMS. > I expect that Unix + make + awk + emacs (you can afford it) will allow pro- > grammers to hack out more code than they would under VMS,... MMS (make) has certainly made life easier for me on VMS. If the Emacs you're referring to is the James Gosling Emacs, Unipress Software - the place you get the Unix version - also sells a VMS version. > Many of the neato-utilities for Unix could be rewritten for VMS... Definitely true; net.sources is my favorite newsgroup, and I've had great success getting things to run on VMS using VAX C. Also, a good number of Unix utilities have been made to run on VMS - as well as other DEC operating systems - by Martin Minow & company. <_Jym_> ._________________________________________________________. .__! Jym Dyer <> Software Craftsworker for DEC <> Nashua, NH !__. .__! Arpanet: dyer%vaxuum.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA <> E-Net: VAXUUM::DYER !__. __! Usenet: ...{allegra|decvax|ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vaxuum!dyer !__ NOTE: Statements provided here are based on my own beliefs, and not necessar- ily those of |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Corporation.