Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-sem.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!grkermi!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!brl-sem!abc From: abc@brl-sem.ARPA Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Why the vax, but not the Unix?? Message-ID: <345@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 16:07:33 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-sem.345 Posted: Fri Jun 7 16:07:33 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Jun-85 23:40:28 EDT References: <27400001@gypsy.UUCP> <546@hou2b.UUCP> <11250@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: abc@brl-sem (SECAD/CSMB) .ARPA (Brint Cooper (SECAD/CSMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 9 To add to what Ron said, for whatever reasons, computers seem to take the article, software in geneal does not. Thus a probram runs under (VMS, UNIX, RT-11, EXEC-8) on the (1180, VAX, ENIAC, TRS-80). The reason may have to do with the evolution of operating systems as software to support programing in languages. Now,that goes 'way back; se never wrote in The English, The Franch, etc. Brint