Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:6824 comp.os.vms:5089 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!garry From: garry@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Garry Wiegand) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Help us defend against VMS! Message-ID: <3931@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 3 Mar 88 19:33:44 GMT Reply-To: garry@oak.cadif.cornell.edu Organization: Cornell Engineering && Ithaca Software, Inc. Lines: 26 In a recent article mcpherso@msudoc.UUCP wrote: > > > YOU PEOPLE ARE WASTING MY TIME!!! > > Go away, please. We have both, we like both too. But, as professionals, it's always interesting to discuss what makes a good computer. The VMS vs Unix holy war is unusually fun and enlightening because people have such strong opinions and ideas about it. Most of what goes by on these newsgroups can be classified as "data" - people reporting random bits of technical info to each other. Topics that inspire people to *think*, on the other hand, are rare. I've gained a *lot* more enlightenment from "Unix vs VMS" than from all the usual grungy junk around here. Harrumph. garry wiegand (garry@oak.cadif.cornell.edu - ARPA) (garry@crnlthry - BITNET) PS - I'd like to publicly thank Barry Shein for a very good pro-Unix (or pro-both) posting. I'm generally pro-VMS (ie, DEC's "style" of doing things is closer to my own than the Unix authors' style is), but Barry's arguments were practical and carefully put.