Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcmi!hdr!eric
From: eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Should I switch to VMS for software development?
Keywords: Why is UNIX better?
Message-ID: <901@hdr.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 89 22:21:30 GMT
Reply-To: eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson)
Organization: Amperif Corporation.  Omaha, NE
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Help!  The new boss has decided that we no longer need our 3B15 running 
UNIX System V for software development, but can get along instead with
a VAX 11/730 running VMS.  :-(

Our software development duties including the building of language products
(using yacc/lex, etc.) and communications interfaces, and the porting thereof
to a number of target operating systems (lots of flavors of Unix, VMS, PC-DOS,
OS-1100, etc.)  UNIX for us has been an excellent platform for us in this
type of work.

If anyone has put together a list/report comparing UNIX and VMS for software
development, or has their own insights, I would greatly appreciate hearing 
from you!  As you might guess, I am rather fond of UNIX and would like to
keep it around.

-- 
Eric J. Johnson,  Amperif Corporation.  UUCP: eric@hdr.UUCP
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