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From: fuat@cunixc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: VMS is not the evil empire
Message-ID: <493@cunixc.columbia.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 88 22:12:02 GMT
References: <12067@brl-adm.ARPA> <707@hdr.UUCP> <20469@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <2504@decuac.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: fuat@cunixc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran)
Organization: Columbia University Center for Computing Activities
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In article <2504@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) writes:
>Not any more.  Ken Olsen has made it clear that we support UNIX and
>VMS equally, we fund them equally, and with the same level of
>committment.  (This in a *very* recent clarification statement on
>Digital's UNIX commitment.)
>

Does this mean Ultrix is now getting as much funding as VMS is
currently getting?  Doesn't VMS have a head start, and things aren't
equal yet...

>VAX diagnostics run under Ultrix as well as under VMS.

DEC Local recently brought in a VMS RA60 pack to be able to run
diagnostics on our 8700.  Are you sure ALL VAX diagnostics exist under
Ultrix?  i.e. can an Ultrix site run without ever hearing anything
about VMS?


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