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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Help us defend against VMS!
Message-ID: <10720@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 88 17:54:23 GMT
References: <1636@tulum.UUCP> <20268@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <695@unm-la.UUCP> <2134@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <2134@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> lynn@engr.uky.edu (H. Lynn Tilley) writes:
[It is rumoured that]
>... RISC is here and VMS is not projected to be compatible across
>this architecture. ... [could] mean the abandonment
>of VMS and any VMS services that can not be supported under Ultrix.

This gave me a funny thought.  If you have seen Ultrix 2.x, you know
that it `looks more like VMS' than did 4.2BSD.  Perhaps the plot runs
thus:  Hack Ultrix until it smells enough like VMS to get most customers
to switch.

Is that a DCL shell I see in 3.0?    :-)
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