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From: phil@osiris.UUCP (Philip Kos)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: RMS v/s UNIX (non-religious) -- fun with TM
Message-ID: <188@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 08:59:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 08:59:21 1985
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> . . .  Therefore, any proceedure which works on a VAX/VMS system
> can also be made to work on a VAX/UNIX system with, at most, an addition of
> storage.  The VMS locking protocol supposedly works on VAX/VMS systems, so
> it can also be implemented on a VAX/UNIX system.  If nothing else you can
> simulate a bare VAX under UNIX and run VMS on that virtual machine.
> 
> J. Giles

Perhaps somebody from Relational Technology would be interested in
discussing the problem of locking on UNIX, since they had to deal
with it in porting Ingres to UNIX machines.

					Phil Kos
					The Johns Hopkins Hospital