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From: chet@pirate.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
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Subject: Re: DEC Humor and OSF
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Date: 29 Sep 88 16:48:00 GMT
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>From the 26 Sept. 1988 `Digital Review' (used w/o permission)

>CANNES, France -- VMS is more compliant with the spcifications of
>the Open Software Foundation (OSF) than any other operating system
>available today, DEC President Ken Olsen said on the second day of 
>the DECworld show, held here.


And VMS, with it's peculiar mixture of Bliss and VAX assembly language, is
supposed to port with very little pain to all the machines that the OSF
wants to offer support for? (At least, I would assume, those of the 
sponsoring corporations.)  C'mon, Ken!  Get real!  VMS, though it has its
good points, is simply not as portable as a variant of Unix.

I guess Digital is quite sure that it can control the OSF, like it seems to
be quite sure that it will control the evolution of the X Window System.  This
despite all the assurances that "the OSF is not controlled by any corporation;
it is an independent entity".
| Chet Ramey            chet@cwjcc.CWRU.EDU    chet@alpha.CES.CWRU.EDU
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|		Just another jerk takin' pride in his work...