[SunRescue] Re: rescue digest, Vol 1 #1105 - 18 msgs

[William Barnett-Lewis]

Well, given the discussions I've heard here, I doubt your the only one,
but I gave up caring about any possible advantage that VMS might have
had the day Dave Cutler went to work for MS. I mean, talk about selling
your soul...

I was a pretty hard core *nix geek prior to that: that only re-enforced
my perception that DEC's software people really needed to buy a clue. 

Then again, my idea of ideal hardware is an Xerox D-machine or a
Symbolics UX-1200 VME board for a Sun box(I'd damn near do anything for
one... Anyone here got one for sale???). Good as *nix is, the real Lisp
Machines blow it completely out of the water. To me, the best DEC is/was
a PDP-10 running Interlisp...  ;'p

My $.02.  

As always, your milage will vary...

William

> Message: 18
> From: "Chris Byrne" <chris at chrisbyrne.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 21:00:29 -0800
> Subject: [SunRescue] Am I the only guy here who like VMS?
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> 
> All,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Ok, networking was, as I said irritating unless you drank the DEC coolaid,
> and the security was terrible in the default configuration (anyone remember
> the NASA worm?) but overall I thought VMS was a pretty good system.
> 
> Am I just crazy here, or is it that no-one still has VMS OS tapes?
> 
> Chris Byrne
> 
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