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From: ereiamjh@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Tom B. O'Toole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Auto-trol support for VMS
Message-ID: <5516@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 12 Jun 90 17:54:21 GMT
References: <1208@auto-trol.UUCP>
Reply-To: ereiamjh@jhunix.UUCP (Tom B. O'Toole)
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Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <1208@auto-trol.UUCP> garhow@auto-trol.COM () writes:
>"We have adopted Unix as our strategic future operating system direction for all
Neet "strategy" d00d!
  Well, I for one am glad that I don't use and in fact have never heard of 
your product, because I for one am sick of having Unix shoved up my ass by 
vendors. Blah blah blah unix is so great blah blah blah here is is blah blah 
too bad...
  Don't get me wrong, I use unix every day, and I think it's got good and bad
points, but it's not the ONLY thing for EVERYTHING as all these vendors 
desperately trying to be on the inside of the next windshift would have us 
think. But it is the vendors that are taking away the CHOICE from the 
usersLEAPING on (whoops, damn vi)...hh
   I hope DEC hurries up and makes VMS portable, because it's the only way
it can survive with THESE kinds of market forces. Or somebody come up with
a new OS from scratch (no, I don't mean like OS2!). It seems we are always
hearing about the latest unix related marketing press release from the
investment banker OS kernel hacker-gurus who read tea leaves for the computer
press, and most of the time, I couldn't care less... 
-- 
Tom O'Toole - ecf_stbo@jhuvms.bitnet     "Internet is the wide area network
JHUVMS system programmer       protocol packaged with TCP/IP that unix systems
Homewood Computing Facilities  rely on to communicate remotely with each other"
Johns Hopkins University, Balto. Md. 21218                   -Digital Review