Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!fenchurch.mit.edu!jbs 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.) Message-ID: <9629@eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: 4 Jul 88 03:04:56 GMT References: <203@eutrc3.UUCP> <1615@alliant.Alliant.COM> <1043@atari.UUCP> <2568@ihuxy.ATT.COM> <2247@sugar.UUCP> Sender: uucp@eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 20 X-Disclaimer: The contents of this article reflect only the personal opinion of the author. 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