Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.os.rsts
Subject: Re: UNIX versus VMS (Re: Porting utilities to the ST.)
Message-ID: <2282@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 88 16:09:53 GMT
References: <203@eutrc3.UUCP> <1615@alliant.Alliant.COM> <1043@atari.UUCP> <445@sp7040.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <445@sp7040.UUCP>, jsp@sp7040.UUCP (John Peters) writes:
% In article <9629@eddie.MIT.EDU>, jbs@fenchurch.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) writes:
% <^> In article <2247@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
% <^> >I'll take RSX-11M over VMS any day. t's
% <^> >smaller

% <^> Who cares?  Sure, it's nice to fit a ship into a bottle, but if I'm
% <^> going on a cruise, I'd rather take the QE2 (if I'm trying to get from
% <^> point A to point B, I'll probably take an airplane).

The point is that you can't fit VMS on the ST, but RSX would fit just fine.
The Amiga O/S is very similar to RSX (with a much less chaotic file system),
and it runs just fine on a 68000 with no MMU.

% 	This conversation is quickly leading nowhere.  I'm sorry I
% replied to the person who supports VMS earlier.  If it doesn't apply to
% the ST, this is the wrong place for the discussion.  Lets talk about how
% to improve the ST not fight on which other operating system is best.

Sorry, I thought that's what I was doing. I'm only an ex-STer, but I'm trying
to help.
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