CMS

[Henry Spencer]

In article <19709 at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mudd-j at pike.cis.ohio-state.edu (John R. Mudd) writes:
>>Have you ever used VM/CMS? ...
>
>... I *liked* VM/CMS from a user point-of-view.  The shop I worked at had a
>IBM 3090 running VM/XA with 200+ users, and that system was FAST.  Not like
>some of the delays I've had on some of these Unix-boxes.  Of course, they're
>not as big as a 3090...

Damn right they aren't.  Unix on a big Amdahl really blasts along too.
Don't confuse hardware with software; of course a really big mainframe
is faster than an overgrown mini.
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