Whats a reasonable collection?

From: Geoff Roberts <geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au>
Date: Thu Jun 28 20:09:13 2001

----- Original Message -----
From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus_at_canit.se>
To: "Bill Pechter" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: Whats a reasonable collection?


> Bill Pechter skrev:
>
> >I'd liked a cross between OS/2 and VAX/VMS... maybe with FreeBSD
> >thrown in.
>
> Isn't that Windows NT?

In it's dreams. There is anecdotal evidence that some VMS'isms were
included in NT 4(?)
by ex DEC developers. However this did not have the effect of making a
basically unstable OS
stable. It's a common joke that Bill would like NT 9.0 to work as well
as VMS.

Cheers

Geoff in Oz
Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 20:09:13 BST

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