Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re: Help us defend against VMS!
Message-ID: <3201@phri.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 88 22:30:35 GMT
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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lynn@engr.uky.edu (H. Lynn Tilley) writes:
> Despite what the VMS defenders like to say, RISC is here and VMS is not
> projected to be compatible across this architecture.

	If I understand Henry correctly, he's saying that you can't port
VMS to a RISC machine.  Why not?  Other than it's proprietary nature, what
is there to prevent a VMS port hardware other than a vax?
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016