[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4af62a8e$0$269$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
> Would it have made a big difference?
> 
> VMS was not the only multiuser OS.
> 
> They could have used ideas from Unix, Multics etc. instead.

   Does it make a difference?  Compare MacOS X, which has a Mac GUI on
   top of a well known UNIX kernel, with Windows, which has it's own
   kernel with some small familiarities between IO subsystems with VMS.

   Why is it so many of us VMS enthusiasts love those Mac commercials?
   Perhaps we find quality and reliability attractive in both the 
   software we use as well as the software we write?