Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Should I switch to VMS for software development?
Keywords: Why is UNIX better?
Message-ID: <203@becker.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 89 08:33:03 GMT
References: <901@hdr.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
Lines: 35

In article <901@hdr.UUCP> eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson) writes:
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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.
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	Your new boss is brain-damaged. I won't suggest any list of
	Unix/VMS comparisons. I'll instead suggest you replace your
	boss...

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|Eric J. Johnson,  Amperif Corporation.  UUCP: eric@hdr.UUCP
|Perhaps, once upon a time, some Devilish hacker planted a bomb deep in the 
|human brain such that it would only trigger upon a certain thought passing 
|through the mind...  Perhaps this explains spontaneous human combu*****
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Good luck,
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