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- From: ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (You never forget your first gale)
- Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
- Message-ID: <21DEC199210395642@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>
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- References: <BzGn32.37C@dscomsa.desy.de> <1gt111INNt3b@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1992Dec19.012355.26665@ll.mit.edu> <mcdonald.624@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:39:00 GMT
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- In article <mcdonald.624@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes...
- >The Unix way has proven to be the best way; its one of the biggest
- >reasons VMS is a current sales disaster.
-
- Not true. Unix became popular because it was the software shipped with all
- the newer faster workstation and server hardware. Beginning, middle and end of
- story. This is obvious, it's not even worth contesting.
-
- >Also consider this: if you write that file on VMS using the VMS
- >proprietary method, you can't read it on any other machine using
- >the same code. If you did it the C/Unix way, you code will run as-is
- >on any machine using standard C. Even VMS.
-
- Another red herring. It's because the 'standard' C runtime library on any
- system is an emulation of the unix system. RMS emulations for unix are also
- available which would allow the same interoperability for VMS native format
- files.
-
- Tom O'Toole - ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu - JHUVMS system programmer
- Homewood Computing Facilities, Johns Hopkins University, Balto. Md. 21218
- >Here comes a jet ski.
- >weuh weeuhh weeuhh weeuhh WEEUHH WEEUHH WEEUHH WEEUHH weeuhh weeuhh weeuhh weuh
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