Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site abnjh.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!houxz!houxm!mhuxl!abnjh!cbspt002 From: cbspt002@abnjh.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Re: How do Unix and VMS compare? Message-ID: <689@abnjh.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 20:04:19 EDT Article-I.D.: abnjh.689 Posted: Sun Jun 17 20:04:19 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 01:41:57 EDT References: <290@oddjob.UUCP>, <34300002@hp-pcd.UUCP> Organization: ATTIS, NJ Lines: 13 >How many VMS ports to other CPUs/architectures compared to Unix >ports? Two (VAX and MicroVAX I). By the fall the answer will be four (add VAX 11/790 and MicroVAX II). While this doesn't compare to the number of so-called Unix 'ports' (many of which have compatibility problems), I can bet my life that anything that runs on one VAX/VMS system will run unaltered on any other (without a recompile, even). This is not my experience with Unix, nor should such an expectation be rational, since an operating system, to be effective (*fast*, reliable, make full use of the hardware, etc.) must be closely knit to the hardware. And VMS has EDT.