[Info-vax] Why so much Unix envy?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-08-30 06:17, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
>
> The VMS way is much better.  When VMS lost ground due to bad marketing
> etc, many things were developed on unix with an "I don't care about
> other operating systems" attitude.  Some of these became de-facto
> standards (gzip etc) so VMS people had to adapt if they wanted to use
> them.

Whoa! Don't throw stones in glass houses...
How many VMS programs can you say were developed with a mind of making 
it easy to compile and run them under other operating systems?

I would say that this is natural for any program developed. You normally 
do not try to accommodate for other style of operating systems when you 
write software.

I would say your problem is more one of you being unhappy since you see 
so many programs written for Unix which you would like to have on your 
favorite OS.

	Johnny

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