VMS & UNIX comparison rebutal (not as long as it looks)

[Henry Spencer]

>..............................................................If you want 
>try comparing UNIX to true siblings, say TOPS-20 or RSX, for a revelation.
>WHEN IS UNIX GOING TO GROW UP?

I have no experience with TOPS-20, but comparing Unix to RSX is indeed
informative.  As a realtime system, RSX may be all right (after all,
that's what it was designed to be).  As a timesharing system, there's
no contest:  Unix wins every time.  Unix may not have grown up yet, but
RSX has never gotten out of the cradle.

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.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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