Should I switch to VMS for software development?
Bruce Becker
bdb at becker.UUCP
Sun Jan 8 18:33:03 AEST 1989
In article <901 at hdr.UUCP> eric at hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson) writes:
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|Help! The new boss has decided that we no longer need our 3B15 running
|UNIX System V for software development, but can get along instead with
|a VAX 11/730 running VMS. :-(
|
|Our software development duties including the building of language products
|(using yacc/lex, etc.) and communications interfaces, and the porting thereof
|to a number of target operating systems (lots of flavors of Unix, VMS, PC-DOS,
|OS-1100, etc.) UNIX for us has been an excellent platform for us in this
|type of work.
|
|If anyone has put together a list/report comparing UNIX and VMS for software
|development, or has their own insights, I would greatly appreciate hearing
|from you! As you might guess, I am rather fond of UNIX and would like to
|keep it around.
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Your new boss is brain-damaged. I won't suggest any list of
Unix/VMS comparisons. I'll instead suggest you replace your
boss...
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|Eric J. Johnson, Amperif Corporation. UUCP: eric at hdr.UUCP
|Perhaps, once upon a time, some Devilish hacker planted a bomb deep in the
|human brain such that it would only trigger upon a certain thought passing
|through the mind... Perhaps this explains spontaneous human combu*****
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Good luck,
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