[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4AB258CB.14549.covms at b4bbs.com>, "Sampsa" <sampsa at b4bbs.com.remove-10pj-this> writes:
>   To: koehler
> -=> koehler wrote to comp.os.vms <=-
> 
>  > iphone and ipodtouch run OS-X. OS-X is unix.
> 
>  ko>      OS-X is UNIX plus a damn good GUI.  iPhone and iPod are not UNIX.
> 
> Well when I SSH into my iphone and run "uname -a" it tells me I'm running
> Darwin 10.0.0d3.
> 
> My Macbook Pro says I'm running Darwin 9.8.0. Did something happen between
> those two versions
> that makes the newer Darwin "not Unix"? :)

   Nope.  Darwin is UNIX.  The GUI form Mac certainly is not.  The
   applications that make such wonderfull use of that GUI is not.

   "runs on" is not the same as "is".