[geeks] just to stir things up, a few predictions

[Eric Dittman]

> > > > > 15. Microsoft will admit that Windows/NT was really UNIX system 7
> > > > > run through a code randomizer.
> > > > 
> > > > You mean VMS. :)
> > > 
> > > Yeah, even randomized UNIX could never be that bad... :)
> > 
> > I think you've got that backwards, since VMS is far superior to UNIX.  :-)
> 
> Yep, which is why Windows, based on VMS, is so incredibly good...

I see you are confused.  Windows is not based on VMS.  Dave Cutler left
DEC and went to Microsoft and designed NT and reused some of his ideas,
but that's about it.

> Seriously, VMS has some areas which are better, but a ton which are
> definitely not better.

VMS has a ton of areas that are definitely better.

> Then on top of that, VMS had a parent which tried to kill it via various
> methods for over ten years.

Yes, Digital tried to kill it because GQ Palmer was trying to turn the company
into a PC-only company.  Compaq did a lot of work on keeping it going, as is
HP.

> VMS, now all but dead, is still being stabbed continously by its
> adoptive parents.

You are wrong here.  HP is spending a lot of money on migrating VMS to Itanium
and is making a lot of money selling VMS.  There are companies that are migrating
to VMS (from Window and/or UNIX).
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net