[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[yyyc186]

On Apr 7, 10:08 am, "Bob Eager" <rd... at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> No, you are talking opaque rubbish. And I've been teaching this stuff
> probably since before you even went to college...
>
> Explain to us all, in detail (without all the rubbish about death
> certificates) what makes a VMS process a process, while a UNIX process
> is seemingly just a thread. And quote academic authorities for it.
>

I really feel sorry for your students.  I will inform my clients and
readers that they shouldn't interview or hire IT majors from Scranton.

How could you possibly have taught this stuff and not know this
fundamental difference????

Sad...very sad.

I hope your students can get their money back, or at least their
parents can.  They weren't taught much.

There is nothing rubbish about birth certificates.  The concept has
different names on different platforms, but has the same rules on all
of them.  Look it up.  If you want to see some of the information
birth and death certificates contain, turn on accounting so they
actually get saved beyond their useful life and run some of the
accounting reports.  You can do this on MVS, on OZ/whatever it is now,
OpenVMS and many other platforms, just not Unix and most of its
derivatives...potential exception would be AIX...IBM didn't write AIX,
it was written by Interractive, and they might have done it right.

No process gets created without a birth certificate.  Period.  Unix/
Linux (with possible exception of AIX) doesn't have this rule.

Look it up, or give it to your students as an assignment.  You'd be
doing them a favor if you gave it to them since it would be the only
thing they learned during their four years there.