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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.os.rsts
Subject: UNIX versus VMS (Re: Porting utilities to the ST.)
Message-ID: <2247@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jul 88 19:37:35 GMT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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VMS is a serious resource hog. I'll take RSX-11M over VMS any day. It's
smaller, faster (LSI-11 with RSX beats Microvax with VMS any day), and RSX
actually has a *useful* system monitor.

It'd be pretty easy to port an RSX-like operating system to the ST. RSX
supports unmapped memory, too, though you need to write position-independent
code.
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