Unix vs. VAX/VMS and Windows vs. Unix/Linux/BSD -- seems like we'veseen this before

From: allisonp <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun May 7 20:40:22 2000

>But until the Vax is available at Intel prices and reliablity (the old
>VS3100's and uVaxII's are getting a bit long in the tooth for joe
>consumer -- and the disks are now creaky)...


What disks creaky? They run with newer stuff. But no any os that
has the VMS/Unix admin requirements is not consumer friendly anyway.

Unix or VMS or even NT the aim is the same for someone like me.
That is to get the user out of the core system where they have no business.

Now the problem is that w9x et al has become pervasive any new OS
one might introduce has to work and play well in that space, thats a PITA!
Linux is ok, I've got Caldara OpenV2.3 and it's not faster than W95 and
it uses just as much space, it aquired all the bloat win has. the advantage
is it's got security. The down side is now you have a user that can't use
word documents and excel spread sheets without conversion. Sharing
files is easy if you fire up samba and try to explain "mounting" so someone
that can nearly say CPU. Thats the problem with better.

Allison
Received on Sun May 07 2000 - 20:40:22 BST