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From: jbs@fenchurch.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.os.rsts
Subject: Re: UNIX versus VMS (Re: Porting utilities to the ST.)
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Date: 4 Jul 88 03:04:56 GMT
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In article <2247@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>VMS is a serious resource hog.

Yeah, right.

>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).

>faster (LSI-11 with RSX beats Microvax with VMS any day)

Even if true, so what?  What do you do when you outgrow your "LSI-11"
(I assume you mean the J-11)?  Network?  Are you going to claim that
RSX networking is superior, too?  Also, don't forget about the
MicroVAX-3000 series.

Jeff Siegal