[rescue] Solaris on a PPC (now VMS)

[Kevin]

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Sounds good, especially the part about being full
featured out of the box.  I like the concept of only
having to install what i intend to use and nothing
else, but at other times i get tired of HAVING to do
so. What hardware does VMS run on? Anything other than
VAX and Alpha?

/KRM

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:43:42 -0500
Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 02:53 AM, Kevin
> wrote:
> > This brings me to a question.  I am not very
> > familiar with VMS but i see that many people who
> > use it claim that it is superior to many of it's
> > competitors.  My question is basically, what is so
> > good about it?  I'm not arguing that it is not,
> > especially since i know nothing about it.  I just
> > want to know what it's strong points are and how it
> > compares to the competition?
> 
>    Well...one strong point is reliability.  It DOES
>    NOT GO DOWN.
> 
>    We're not talking about Windows' idea of "does not
>    go down" meaning 
> runs for a few days at a time.  We're talking about
> machines in active use that go for years...Not one or
> two years, but TEN...between reboots.  No joke.
> 
>    Another thing is features...it's got every
>    kitchen-sink feature that 
> one can think of.  It's about as far from UNIX's
> minimalist approach as an OS can be.  Access control
> lists on files.  Very flexible batch queue
> management.  Powerful resource accounting and usage
> tracking.  A command language that makes shell
> scripts look like MS-DOS .BAT files.  The list goes
> on and on.
> 
>    One other thing is clustering.  REAL clustering
>    with shared 
> resources...not "plug them all into an ethernet
> switch and pass UDP packets back and forth between
> running applications" crap that a lot of people refer
> to as "clustering" these days.
> 
>    Security.  Try to crack a VMS system.  Just try.
> 
>    It really is an amazing OS, even if DCL is a
>    little verbose.
> 
>          -Dave
> 
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