[Info-vax] FreeAXP loses network connectivity when laptop is woken up from

Paul Sture paul at sture.ch
Wed May 16 10:41:31 EDT 2012


On Wed, 16 May 2012 08:43:53 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <u2kc89-7l7.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch>
> writes:
>> 
>> That surprises me, because the NT Magazine article I read in 1997
>> describing NT at the system level was so like VMS (working sets,
>> quantum et al) that if I'd known I could have written most of that
>> article myself, purely from my knowledge of VMS.
> 
>    You expect NT Magazine to get it right?

:-)
 
>    I would not be surpized if other parts of WNT ripped off designs from
>    VMS, RSX, RT-11, RSTS, TOPS, or any other DEC product (some of which
>    included DOS in thier names).  As you mentioned, other DEC folks went
>    to M$.

Indeed.
 
>    But ripping off parts of a design is not the same as getting it
>    right.
> 
>    VMS decades ago was far more than Windows 8 promises.

Will Win8 have SSH/SSHD and an NFS client?

-- 
Paul Sture



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