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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <f61e1266-faf4-481b-a37f-31b80fe2b92c at k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
	yyyc186 <yyyc186 at hughes.net> writes:
> 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.

He doesn't teach at The University of Scranton. 

And the University of Scranton has an Acredited Program, which is
something the majority of CS programs inthe country can not claim.
Our students have no problems getting jobs and are very much in
demand by some major employers.  Not being interviewed to work there
seems more like a plus than a minus.

bill

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