[SunRescue] Tape drive

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   Hmm...you sound as if VMS is "out".  Sure, it's not the mainstay of
> the Internet like Unix, nor is it the mainstay of cheap game-playing
> machines like PeeCees...but I personally know of literally hundreds of
> VMS installations, with most running on very modern hardware.  There's
> a lot more VMS out there than most people around here might think.
> For some applications, it's simply the right tool for the job.

How many VMS installations have users(people who log in and switch
between different programs for different tasks like word processing and
spreadsheet)? I bet most VMS installations are either application servers,
or they serve terminals, but the users are automatically logged in to a
program that communicates mainly with some sorta database back end?

When I think about what's ideal in an OS, I think in terms of end user
OSs.  For servers, it really doesn't matter that much as Novell (didn't
they run on DOS?) and Oracle (they use raw disks instead of a file system)
have demonstrated.  For servers, the OS is just a matter of convienience
to the programmer, and if he doesn't like it, he can just write his own.

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Joshua Boyd