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From: davidli@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dave Meile)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Help us defend against VMS!
Message-ID: <4236@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 88 14:51:16 GMT
References: <2235@bsu-cs.UUCP> <892@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU>
Reply-To: davidli@umn-cs.UUCP (Dave Meile)
Organization: University of Minnesota
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Summary: UNIX(tm) is a product of AT&T

I don't understand these OS wars here in comp.os.vms.  I mean, the two
major operating systems are both, for the most part, proprietary.  If you
don't believe this, try writing your own version of UNIX and marketing it
without paying AT&T any money.  You'll quickly experience the how "non
proprietary" it really is!

The DEC Educational Software Library is *not* just for workstations, at
least as far as I've been able to tell from the literature we have here.
MicroVAX II, MicroVAX 2000, VAXstation 2000 ...  If you wish to pay for
an unlimited VMS license, you can still get the Library.  True, the VAXstation
2000 is limited to two users -- but that is its *function* ... workstations
are one-two person computers folks.

Now then, all we have to wait for is POSIX (not a tm of AT&T) and this
silly argument will go away.