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