VMS & UNIX comparison rebutal (not a - (nf)

[bill at haddock.UUCP]

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haddock!bill    Jul  5 18:34:00 1984


>A friend of mine (who was one of the first non-DEC people to see VMS)
>described VMS as "like a nightmare about RSX-11M".  I've never seen any
>reason to quarrel with this description.

    Having worked on one of the Unix emulators which runs under Vms, I
    would like to offer a parable:

	Defenders of Vms make much of logical names; indeed, try to
	imagine VMS without them!  However, to redirect via SYS$INPUT,
	the translated value could be 63 characters long, maximum (at
	least in VMS 3.n.  I've been away from it for a while)
	Since a VMS pathname can easily be 120+ characters, a user could
	end up S.O.L.

    VMS is incoherent; Unix is coherent.  If the software base appeals to
    you, get VMS.  I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.