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From: jmaynard@thesis1.med.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: Algol68 (and standards diatribe)
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Date: 1 Apr 91 19:24:40 GMT
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In article <4394@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>In article <1991Mar29.222133.2819@cl.cam.ac.uk> nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) writes:
>>Someone else's quote:  "From an MVS viewpoint, it is difficult to
>>distinguish UNIX and MS-DOS".
>That's Richard O'Keefe's.  To me, it suggests serious problems with
>an MVS viewpoint.

No...all it says is that MVS is *different* from the interactively-oriented
philosophy inherent in both Unix and MS-DOS. The differences between MVS
and either are far, far greater than the differences between the two. There's
a simple reason: just as a 3090-600J is designed to do a different kind of
work from a Sequent, so MVS is designed to do a different kind of work from
Unix.

...Jay (a senior MVS systems programmer in real life)
-- 
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