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Subject: Re: Re: RE: VMS vs. UNIX - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 13:35:00 EDT
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/***** ea:net.flame / amd!phil /  3:20 am  Jul 23, 1984 */
There's no way Unix could ever emulate VMS.

 Phil Ngai (408) 982-6554
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Bullshit. You could emulate VMS on Unix, it would just take a lot more
work - probably a lot more than anyone is willing to invest. The problem
is the incredibly large number of incredibly baroque system calls that
VMS has (what do you mean, this argument needs to be *missing*???).

This leads to the interesting problem that I can do the same obscure
things you can on VMS, with much less manual paging. Not nearly as
many system calls to use, nor as many pointers in the manuals.

	"VMS: an OS of the '60s. Unix: an OS of the '70s."
	<mike