Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali!caesar.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!emory!stiatl!meo From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: AIX vs VMS Message-ID: <9428@stiatl.UUCP> Date: 20 Mar 90 23:30:51 GMT Organization: Roadkills-R-Us Lines: 18 buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes: |hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes: |> Hmmm, how novel...and how many years have these things been in VMS? | |And how many architectures does VMS run on? | |Oh, sorry. I forgot we're not supposed to notice that putting features in |a portable operating system is much harder than to hack things in to a |particular machine. And how many architectures does AIX run on? Or, probably more importantly, how many different manufacturers' architectures? What? All IBM so far? Uh huh. -Miles