[SunRescue] Am I the only guy here who like VMS?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Saturday, March 24, 2001 at 21:00:29 (-0800), Chris Byrne wrote: ]
> Subject: [SunRescue] Am I the only guy here who like VMS?
>
> Lots of us here have (or have had) vaxen, including myself, and it seems
> that most of you are running net-BSD on them. Am I the only guy here who
> actually thinks VMS was pretty cool? Ok it's networking was irritating, but
> in terns of file services, print services, directory services etc... I think
> it did a pretty good job.

You should read Dennis Ritchie's disparaging words about the early
design of VMS!  ;-)

It is really still a pretty backwards system in many ways (not that I
know all that much about it :-).

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