You might be a VMS Bigot if.....

From: healyzh_at_aracnet.com <(healyzh_at_aracnet.com)>
Date: Tue Oct 3 19:17:58 2000

R. D. Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> > Ahhh, what's this "VMS" thing y'all are wasting bandwidth on? I've heard
> > of a little-used and quite obsolete program that ran on some dec hardware
> > called "V-Mess" - is this the same thing?
>
> Appears so. Methinks they're discussing that fun thing to play with,
> that runs on VAXen, which has more neat features than UNIX yet never
> managed to become as useful as UNIX, but is much better than anything
> that Microsoft ever even thought of. ;-)

We're discussing that wonderous OS that runs on VAXen *AND* Alpha's. That
OS which is more useful that UNIX if you know what you're doing :^)

> Is not what the world needs a good VMS/UNIX hybrid OS? All the

Actually I'm pretty happy with a VMS/MacOS Hybrid system. Put a MacOS
front-end running X-Windows and stick a VMS Cluster on the backend. Totally
rocks!

> benefits of UNIX and VMS would surely drive Microsoft into the

In other words add true clustering, killer stability, awsome utilities, and
good documentation, to a UNIX system? Shoot UNIX is already so far ahead of
Windows it isn't funny :^) Besides remember how much VMS tech Microsoft has
purchased to put in Windows 2000.

> ground... that is, it it weren't for those pesky average consumers
> with lots of purchasing power who know mostly nothing about computers
> and operating systems who get conned into wanting to purchase Peecees
> running Windoze.

Ugh, scary way of putting it. I firmly believe that a person should not be
allowed to touch let alone BUY a computer until they get a "Computer Drivers
License"!

                        Zane
Received on Tue Oct 03 2000 - 19:17:58 BST