Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Re: VAX != VMS Message-ID: <9399@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 22:37:20 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9399 Posted: Sat Jul 27 22:37:20 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 29-Jul-85 06:51:50 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 20 From: Scott Alexander I don't believe that there would be any traffic on an OS independent version of info-vax. I can't think of a question which I have seen on unix-wizards, info-unix, or info-vax which was OS independent. Some of the RA81 stuff was close, but most questions ultimately come down to "how do I attach X to my machine" which involves drivers and such like or question like the recurring translation look aside buffer parity error problems which only seem to occur under Unix. I agree that info-vms would have been a better name for this list originally. As is, everyone is used to this name. If we accept the reasoning of the above paragraph, there is no reason to change it since it is likely to cause more confusion than it solves. Perhaps the list of lists description should be changed to indicate that more VMS than Unix is discussed. Scott Alexander Rice University salex@rice