(MPE vs VMS) HP & Compaq

From: Stan Sieler <sieler_at_allegro.com>
Date: Tue Sep 4 18:01:13 2001

Re:

> I was limited to software supplied with the machine which seemed
> inadequate compared to VMS and even in the case of EDITOR to vi. I will

understandable.

> If QEDIT is not supplied by HP then I did not have it, nor probably would
> most new admins.

BTW, HP has a company wide license to use QEDIT!
 
> Indeed, not to me. I will have to dig further. It seems odd to have an
> unsupported workaround for this fundamentual function, and not necessarily
> due to purported stability problems of other OS's.

One method:

    :debug
    mr pc, _reboot_cpu
    c

Or, we can provide you with a free "REBOOT" program if you want it.
 
> I see these complaints repeatedly and they tend to apply to extremely old
> versions of Unix, and no version of VMS.

HP-UX 11i, for example? Just had to run it on Friday.
 
> Also, this sounds like a LVM issue rather than a vxfs issue (if your

yep.
 
> Your comments about system availability, scalability, access to kernel
> debugging information and programming in privileged rings, ease of
> management, and advantages over unix could be taken almost word for word
> from advocates of OpenVMS, and in many cases of System 390, AS/400,
> Tandem, et al. as evidenced by Usenet.

Yep...lot of misinformation out there :)

> It would still be a shame if VMS succumbed to NIH at HP.

we agree.
 

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Stan Sieler                                           sieler_at_allegro.com
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Received on Tue Sep 04 2001 - 18:01:13 BST

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