Help us defend against VMS!

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Sun Mar 20 03:54:23 AEST 1988


In article <2134 at ukecc.engr.uky.edu> lynn at engr.uky.edu (H. Lynn Tilley) writes:
[It is rumoured that]
>... RISC is here and VMS is not projected to be compatible across
>this architecture. ... [could] mean the abandonment
>of VMS and any VMS services that can not be supported under Ultrix.

This gave me a funny thought.  If you have seen Ultrix 2.x, you know
that it `looks more like VMS' than did 4.2BSD.  Perhaps the plot runs
thus:  Hack Ultrix until it smells enough like VMS to get most customers
to switch.

Is that a DCL shell I see in 3.0?    :-)
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