[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

Bob Eager rde42 at spamcop.net
Sun Sep 13 09:11:24 EDT 2009


On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:20:23 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> What does the size of a word have to do with the whole discussion? Or do
> you think that 32 bit Unix should have been created before there was a
> machine to run it on?   I guess a good question would be was VMS
> officially released before the first VAX implementation of Unix was
> competed?

I think it was...so UNIX is newer!

>>> But Linux isn't and people actually think that makes it better.
>> 
>> Linux isn't UNIX. It's a jumped up UNIX wannabe.
>  
> And where in the above statement did I say Linux is Unix?

I was just agreeing with you.




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