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In article <841 at bu-cs.UUCP> bzs at bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>re: MKR mentions the problem of VMS manuals.
>
>At a DECUS a couple of years ago I was sitting and chatting with some
>of the DEC/VMS crew, some of them were involved in ULTRIX also. The
>issue of VMS in an academic environment came up. I was trying to not
>go into any flamage but it occurred to me that while the UNIX (4.2)
>manual set was available at our copy center for around $100 (and that
>includes broken out portions of the administrator's stuff etc, a realistic
>complete set for a student costs more like $50) an equivalent set of
>docs for VMS would fill a couple of bookshelves and cost hundreds of
>dollars. I basically said that it was a real problem, at our VMS site
>almost none of our -faculty- have sufficient VMS manuals in their office
>while at our UNIX sites I never see this problem, they'll just go to the
>copy center and buy what they need.
>
There is now available for microVMS and I think for VMS4.4 a 2 manual set
that is a basic reference of the most needed items. It also takes up
exactly as much shelf space as the 5 manual unix set. Maybe they listened
to you?

>... (I mean, after all, if they used VMS how would they ever learn UNIX?! :-)
>
>	-Barry Shein, Boston University

That should read:

    (I mean, after all, if they used VMS why would they ever WANT to learn UNIX
    :-)

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