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From: raymond@woensel.es.ele.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: VMS (was Re: Wine status March 11, 1994)
Date: 06 Apr 1994 21:45:48 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
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Message-ID: <RAYMOND.94Apr6234548@woensel.es.ele.tue.nl>
References: <2msqvh$61a@marx.esu.edu> <Cn87Is.BI5@festival.ed.ac.uk>
	<1994Mar27.183058.14418@cc.usu.edu> <hastyCnD8HK.3IB@netcom.com>
	<1994Mar29.221805.2175@penrij.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: soup@penrij.UUCP's message of Tue, 29 Mar 1994 22:18:05 GMT

In article <1994Mar29.221805.2175@penrij.UUCP> soup@penrij.UUCP (John R. Campbell) writes:

 > Have you considered that VMS is a lysdexic form of MVS???

Hey, now you're going too far :-)
Watch your language when talking about the dead.

I worked with gcc, emacs, X, twm (what does one need more?) under VMS for
many years... can't say that of MVS, right?

 > Of course, with the POSIX 1003 API calls, VMS might _look_ like UNIX to
 > a program, but then we'll know better, won't we???

If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and looks like a duck, how shall
we call it?
Personally, I've seen several unices that were a hell lot more difficult to
port programs to than VMS.

-Raymond
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Raymond X.T. Nijssen                              raymond@woensel.es.ele.tue.nl

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