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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Re: Fix to Comet Halley program
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Date: Sun, 21-Apr-85 18:40:16 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 21 18:40:16 1985
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> > This is what I really love about Punix..... so many standards! Please,
> > lord, give me VMS or some other adult system so we can share code.
> 
> Sure, everyone has a VAX.
> 
> Ok, you've got VMS on your VAX and OS/32 on your Perkin-Elmer.
>you propose to share code?  Many (most?) of the machines on the network
>are physically incapable of running VMesS.
>-- 
>				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology

This doesn't belong here, but the day this was first posted was the first
time I ever ran Unix on an IBM mainframe.  With thanks to Gordon Moffet,
that day I ran Unix on several VAXen, a Sequent Balance 8000, a P-E 3240,
a PDP-11/70 [posting on it], a 4341, an IRIS, and a Cray [I guess I could glab
an IBM PC].  The original posting reminds me a physicist who's only
conception of computers was based on his experience with VAXen and Crays. :-)

If VMS is an adult system, I wonder about COS, OS/370 under MVT, TSS, OS/32,
RSX,RT,DOS, and all the other things I would have to know to accomplish what
I had to do last Thursday.  Perhaps we should standardize on one computer
type....?  Need we go to back assembly language? U*x has problems, but
based on consulting last Thursday, I declare Unix an adult system.

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
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