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- From: lancelot@spock.uucp (Thor Lancelot Simon)
- Subject: Re: VAX BSD final answer...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.042603.7952@spock.UUCP>
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- Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall
- References: <Byx3D5.326@dscomsa.desy.de> <1992Dec14.041235.4661@panix.com> <BzAEsz.Ipy@dscomsa.desy.de>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:26:03 GMT
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- In article <BzAEsz.Ipy@dscomsa.desy.de> Hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:
- >In article <1992Dec14.041235.4661@panix.com>, tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot
- >Simon) writes:
- >
- >|>In article <Byx3D5.326@dscomsa.desy.de> Hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:
- >|>>In article <DGRAY.92Dec2000244@menudo.uh.edu>, dgray@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis
- >|>Gray
- >|>>Jr.) writes:
- >|>>
- >|>>|>It doesn't look like there is a free unix for the vax. That's too
- >|>>|>bad, since there really isn't a really good OS for the vax anywhere.
- >|>>
- >|>>Except of course for VMS which did a decade ago all the things that UNIX has
- >|>>only just started to.
- >|>
- >|>Except of course for VMS, which was as slow and ungainly a decade ago as UNIX
- >|>has only just started to become.
- >|>
- >|>(Now if there were only a TOPS-20 or ITS port for the vax...)
- >
- >Problem with O/Ss is that in order to solve everyone's needs they need a lot of
- >functionality. UNIX got by by offering a very limited amount of functionality
- >which was exactly what a hacker running simple single user tasks with a minimnum
-
- So. UNIX is designed primarily for single-user use? If that's not what you're
- saying, it sure sounds like it. Mr. Hallam-Baker, you know better.
-
-
- >of complex file handling requirements.
- >
- >In the 70's everyone realized that to make databases run fast you had to put
- >sophisticated data structures onto the disk and handle them in the I/O subsystem
- >rather than the processor. Nowadays suggesting such systems receives hosts of
- >flames from the people who have accepted the sequential file structures only
- >line.
-
- Please provide some evidence that your way is better.
-
- >
- >Yep by all means lets replace VMS with something better. But for heavens sake
- >lets not let UNIX win. If UNIX became the only O/S standard we would never get
- >anything better.
-
- It sounds to me like you can buy what you want from IBM....
- >
- >
- >
- >--
- >
- >Phill Hallam-Baker
-
-
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