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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Stop calling me Fred)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: VMS is not the evil empire
Message-ID: <14500@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: 15 Mar 88 16:54:00 GMT
References: <12067@brl-adm.ARPA> <707@hdr.UUCP> <20469@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <2504@decuac.DEC.COM> <181@mcf.UUCP>
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) >Barry Shein:
) >>DEC's pathological resistance to providing hardware service on Vaxes
) >>running Ultrix or Unix is a good reason not to buy Vaxes, ...

) Frederick M. Avolio:
) >Not any more.  Ken Olsen has made it clear that we support UNIX and
) >VMS equally, ...

Sharan Kalwani:
) Maybe so, but Ken Olsen isn't going to come to my site and fix
) things and I *still* have to deal with Field Circus Engineers who
) love to bash UNIX ...

Maybe it all depends on your local field service office.  We had a
vax from '83 to early '87 and our local field service office never
weasled us about the fact that we ran (BSD) unix.  They even spent
days tracking down an obscure hardware problem that is invisible
under VMS!
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