[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Robin Fairbairns]

 billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>> Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
>> 
>>> Anyway, 32 bit UNIX didn't arrive until *after* VMS. One would have to 
>>> compare early UNIX (even on the PDP-11) with 16 bit VMS (or RSX-11, as we 
>>> know it)! :-)
>> 
>>    Why?  The kernel design, file system design, and basic user interface
>>    design hasn't changed since 16 bit UNIX.
>> 
>>    Don't bother with X11 as a claim to a better user interface.  The
>>    fist thing UNIX users do with an X11 interface is bring up a shell
>>    window.
> 
>Still passing out that FUD, I see.  I have been a Unix user since the late
>70's and an X user since X10.  I bring up a shell window when the task that
>needs to be done is a shell task and I use a GUI Window when that is the
>appropriate inerface.  And, I expect the majority of real Unix users are
>and alwyas have been the same.

and it's irrelevant.  everyone _knows_ what un*x will and won't do for
you.  this thread started with a question about the future of vms, not
the past of unix; the past of unix is boring, except insofar as it
holds innovations that might be useful in the future of vms.  (having
been away from vms for so long, i couldn't possibly comment.)
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge