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From: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Why do Unix people gag at VMS?
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Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 20:44:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 19 20:44:53 1984
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I've been recently transplanted from a very pro-unix environment to
a department that is still using VMS (I'm the only one with any unix
background...) and is remarkably anti-unix... (and quite vehemently
pro-VMS...)

Help!  I need some ammunition to defend my affinity for unix.  I've
gathered that there are a number of net.people who take a quite
opposite stance (anti-VMS...)  Can you give me some good reasons why
one might prefer unix to VMS?  (I'm trying to remain objective...) 

I'm mostly concerned with the system-person's viewpoint, rather than
the user's.  My colleagues do not like the idea of being tied down to
one type of interprocess communication (the pipe) or the fact that
so many sub-processes are spawned when executing relatively trivial
tasks.  Does unix trade off efficiency for elegence?  

I'll summarize if there's sufficient interest.

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Semper ubi sub puri ubi.

    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Instutute of Technology

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