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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Do OS's slow down with age?  (was: DDJ article / UNIX vs BS/2)
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Date: 12 Jan 89 14:33:16 GMT
References: <209@imspw6.UUCP> <12872@steinmetz.ge.com> <370@siswat.UUCP> <1472@cps3xx.UUCP> <12938@steinmetz.ge.com>
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In article <12938@steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com
 (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>[lots of stuff comparing VMS and UNIX deleted]
> 
>   I still see no reason to think that non-portable operating systems are
> inherently faster or smaller than UNIX. ...
>
I have been looking for a portable operating system for some time. Does anyone
know of one?  Unix?  Which version? BSD, SYS V, Ultrix, XENIX,...? Does such
a thing really exist?  I mean one operating system that can run on several
different machines, UNCHANGED.  While unix has been *modified* to run on quite
a few different pieces of hardware, I am not convinced that it is "portable"
and that VMS is "non-portable."  What do you consider portable versus non-
portable?
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