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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:8361 comp.os.linux.misc:12424 comp.os.386bsd.apps:1122 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!qns1.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!news.nic.surfnet.nl!tuegate.tue.nl!viper.es.ele.tue.nl!woensel.es.ele.tue.nl!woensel.es.ele.tue.nl!raymond From: raymond@woensel.es.ele.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: VMS (was Re: Wine status March 11, 1994) Date: 06 Apr 1994 21:45:48 GMT Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Lines: 23 Message-ID: <RAYMOND.94Apr6234548@woensel.es.ele.tue.nl> References: <2msqvh$61a@marx.esu.edu> <Cn87Is.BI5@festival.ed.ac.uk> <1994Mar27.183058.14418@cc.usu.edu> <hastyCnD8HK.3IB@netcom.com> <1994Mar29.221805.2175@penrij.UUCP> NNTP-Posting-Host: woensel.es.ele.tue.nl In-reply-to: soup@penrij.UUCP's message of Tue, 29 Mar 1994 22:18:05 GMT In article <1994Mar29.221805.2175@penrij.UUCP> soup@penrij.UUCP (John R. Campbell) writes: > Have you considered that VMS is a lysdexic form of MVS??? Hey, now you're going too far :-) Watch your language when talking about the dead. I worked with gcc, emacs, X, twm (what does one need more?) under VMS for many years... can't say that of MVS, right? > Of course, with the POSIX 1003 API calls, VMS might _look_ like UNIX to > a program, but then we'll know better, won't we??? If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and looks like a duck, how shall we call it? Personally, I've seen several unices that were a hell lot more difficult to port programs to than VMS. -Raymond -- Raymond X.T. Nijssen raymond@woensel.es.ele.tue.nl Friends don't let friends use DOS