Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!gilla Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Stoopid *nix freaks! Date: Saturday, 24 Feb 1990 13:35:55 EST From: "Arnold G. Gill" Message-ID: <90055.133555GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> References: <90052.182144CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu> <6937@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <16155@smunews.UUCP> >the campus VMS machine has an editor called xedit. [plus derision of xedit - well deserved, I might add] You must really be talking about CMS amchines, not VMS! There is a major world of difference between the two. VM/CMS runs on IBM mainframes only, and is very close to being braindead - they still haven't strayed away from a page-oriented screen architecture. On the otherhand, VAX/VMS is an excellent operating system, with a great many advantages over UNIX. It has a far superior help system, and allows any unique shortening of commands/parameters to operate properly. Its disadvantages include being wordy, and having a lousy subdirectory structure. Unix is far better there. Also, the redirection and pipelineing capabilities of Unix are great. A proper operating system would amalgamate the two, taking the strengths of both. Of course, I want to know why this discussion is wasting bandwidth on comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d. ------- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Arnold Gill | | | Queen's University at Kingston | | | BITNET : gilla@qucdn | Damn, I need something here! | | X-400 : Arnold.Gill@QueensU.CA | | | INTERNET : gilla@qucdn.queensu.ca | | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-