[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer
Michael Kraemer
m.kraemer at gsi.de
Thu Aug 5 11:21:38 EDT 2010
In article <0I-dnYHAMZ_kK8fRnZ2dnUVZ_jOdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert"
<rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> Michael Kraemer wrote:
> > JF Mezei schrieb:
> >
> >> No more of that. The mail stores on unix may be primitive flat files,
> >> but at the end of the day, you don't have to go in there to fix poor
> >> software design.
> >
> > Hear, hear.
> > And I always thought the quasi supernatural status
> > of VMS engineering would ensure quality software design
> > by default.
> >
>
> They did a damned fine job while their jobs lasted!
It seems that VMS mail is so old that its
design phase fell well into those mythical good old times.
So no excuse here.
> Too bad that DEC
> priced them right out of the market!
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