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From: wcs@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs)
Subject: Re: Why use U* over VMS
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs Government Communications
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 90 00:34:12 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.003412.24158@cbnewsh.att.com>
References: <16438@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1990Oct17.211857.19213@decuac.dec.com>
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In article <1990Oct17.211857.19213@decuac.dec.com>, mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
> >So, assuming VAXset is part of the VMS environment, what makes U* better?
> 	As a pure development environment, none is better than whatever
> one you're most familiar with.

Only if the environment you're familiar with is good enough.  
When I switched to UNIX, the environment I was most familiar with was IBM TSO,
and ANYTHING was better than that, except punch cards which I also knew well.

(Unfortunately, vi is "good enough", so I stil haven't switched to EMACS,
in spite of its obvious superiorities. :-)
Marcus goes on to say good things about using toolkits to make the
new environment emulate the old one when possible.

			Bill
-- 
					Thanks; Bill
# Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs AT&T Bell Labs 4M-312 Holmdel NJ
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