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From: weltyrp@rpics.UUCP (Richard Welty)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Re: UNIX coresident with VMS
Message-ID: <197@rpics.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 22:47:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 22:47:25 1985
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> In article <5732@tekecs.UUCP> glenm@tekecs.UUCP (Glen McCluskey) writes:
> >
> >Is it possible to have UNIX and VMS coresident on
> >the same physical disks?  I don't mean running at
> >the same time, just the ability to switch back and
> >forth without changing disk packs.
> 
> It should be possible to do this, provided that you can make sure that
> UNIX does not tamper with the VMS partitions of the disk, and that VMS
> does not tamper with the UNIX partitions of the disk. I know this is
> doable with UNIX. A VMS wizard will have to answer as to whether VMS
> can do this.
> 
> 	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU

To the best of my knowledge, VMS is quite unable to deal with partitions of
a disk ... every VMS system I've ever seen treats the whole disk as a single
collection of disk blocks.
-- 
				Rich Welty

	(I am both a part-time grad student at RPI and a full-time
	 employee of a local CAE firm, and opinions expressed herein
	 have nothing to do with anything at all)

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