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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.153212.24735@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 Jun 91 15:32:12 GMT
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jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:

>Quoted from <1991Jun25.055430.1316@neon.Stanford.EDU> by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):

>> completion], while those under 0 are aged like Unix.  (This is, I believe
>> what VMS supports).

>    Are you saying that VMS is better than Unix?

  Is this a loaded question? :-)
  I'm sure Ken Olsen thinks VMS is better than Unix.
  I think, in terms of their market today, that VMS is a better designed, 
and more well thought out OS, than the Unix which has grown from a 
simple time-sharing OS into something for everyone.
  Of course, this may be because VMS doesn't have to be portable, and can
be tied down to a particular architecture (namely the VAX), thus avoiding
the nastiness of Unix when it comes to things like VM etc...

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