Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: AIX vs VMS Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 90 18:11:14 GMT References: <9428@stiatl.UUCP> <519@siswat.UUCP> <1990Mar26.175619.22528@hybrid.UUCP> <18179@rpp386.cactus.org> <1990Mar28.200036.21081@hybrid.UUCP> <18182@rpp386.cactus.org> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 16 In-reply-to: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org's message of 29 Mar 90 08:38:35 GMT In article <18182@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes: There will never be an operating system running on other than a DEC VAX which is very similiar to VMS. Ever. How soon we forget. Elxsi did run a thing very similar to VMS. Elxsi is history, but it proved that VMS or VMS-like system can be built. I vaguely recall HVX or someone else doing a similar thing... -- Keith H. Bierman |*My thoughts are my own. !! kbierman@Eng.Sun.COM It's Not My Fault | MTS --Only my work belongs to Sun* kbierman%eng@sun.com I Voted for Bill & | Advanced Languages/Floating Point Group Opus | "When the going gets Weird .. the Weird turn PRO"