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From: bigjohn@manta.NOSC.MIL (John Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: VMS/UNIX PORT thanks!
Message-ID: <1174@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 3 Aug 90 00:37:07 GMT
Reply-To: bigjohn@manta.nosc.mil.UUCP (John Morris)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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X-Local-Date: 2 Aug 90 17:37:07 PDT

Thanks for all the 'considered' responses. I plead guilty to
not being totally ignorant about UNIX but figured I must be a
moron and missing some vital information as the people who said
that UNIX didn't support some of the features in VMS were not 
idiots themselves.  So .. I asked the 'wizards'.  Only one kind
soul told me to get off this board as I seemed too stupid to talk
to!
The problem seems to revolve around VMS supporting multi-tasking
_within_ a process via 'threads'. This, I believe, is the feature
that UNIX was lacking in their estimation. Reportedly MOCK has
picked up on this?
Thanks again, I enjoyed the humor and found the information 
enlightening, dim though I am.

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