[Info-vax] VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <ycIOZftUpcnL at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> wrote:
>In article <memn33$5c0$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>> 
>> The nice thing about the Unix philosophy is that everything is broken up into
>> tiny little pieces and all those pieces are interconnected... but each piece
>> is small enough to be more or less debuggable.  This also allows the wise admin
>> to remove stuff that isn't being used, because if it's not running it doesn't
>> matter if it's buggy.
>
>   And then you load Orcale to organize your data because your file
>   system can't.
>
>   I don't thinkUNIX has kept to your notion of small pieces since about
>   1968.

I'd say somewhere around 2000 was the turning point, really.
But thankfully most of the fundamental stuff predates that.
--scott
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