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

From: R. D. Davis <rdd_at_smart.net>
Date: Tue Oct 3 21:31:19 2000

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Will Jennings wrote:
> Don't forget the main thing that UNIX needs...
> Useful error messages!

Yes, I strongly agree, %AGSTAT-I-STRONGLY. :-) Actually, I like the VMS
style errors so much that I use them in CGI scripts. Anyone interested
in creating a VMS/UNIX hybrid? xVMUNIS? UNIX, while extremely flexible,
and a great time-saver, can be boring. VMS, while full of great features,
lacks the speed and hackability (=ease of use) of UNIX. Just think, we
could be writing CGI scripts in DCshL, and editing them in TECOMACS. But
wait, that's not all! We could run all this on 11/730s as well as 3090s,
Peecees and old Sun workstations! For the PDP-11s, we could have
xRSUNI-11. Just think, batch queuesm decent print spooling and useful
job control combined with short command names, lower case (or upper case
if one logs in using upper case and uses '\' characters while typing),
piping, easy to use redirection, etc. Wow!!!

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