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

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

>> 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...

Windows is not based on VMS.  Windows is based on OS/2.  It just happens
that Dave Cutler started working at Microsoft about the time that the NT
project started to come together, which is why NT has so may VMSisms.

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

Which is exactly why HP spent a metric assload of money designing
Itanium2 servers and porting VMS to them, right?

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