Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: CMS Message-ID: <1988Aug12.061040.18720@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <347@spies.UUCP> <670025@hpclscu.HP.COM> <269@quintus.UUCP> <19709@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 88 06:10:40 GMT In article <19709@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mudd-j@pike.cis.ohio-state.edu (John R. Mudd) writes: >>Have you ever used VM/CMS? ... > >... I *liked* VM/CMS from a user point-of-view. The shop I worked at had a >IBM 3090 running VM/XA with 200+ users, and that system was FAST. Not like >some of the delays I've had on some of these Unix-boxes. Of course, they're >not as big as a 3090... Damn right they aren't. Unix on a big Amdahl really blasts along too. Don't confuse hardware with software; of course a really big mainframe is faster than an overgrown mini. -- Intel CPUs are not defective, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology they just act that way. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu