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Subject: Re: VMS vs. U-No-What-ix - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 22-Jul-84 23:26:00 EDT
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/***** ea:net.flame / jett!brian /  5:38 pm  Jul 19, 1984 */
>The best thing I can see going for UN*X is the fact that it's
>the current fad in operating systems.  It is highly portable,
>and will therefore run on lots of different systems.  Thus its
>popularity.

This is also one of the worst things about Unix. As James Jones
puts it: Unix - the OS/360 of the '80s. Next decade, getting all
those people who grew up using Unix to consider using something
else is going to be as hard as getting all those people who grew
up using OS/360 to consider Unix was in the '70s.

	<mike