[Info-vax] The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming file

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 05/30/2018 09:14 AM, Jon Schneider wrote:
> (The BSD's fall into
> this category as well but they abdicated any serious position in
> the IT business world ages ago.  And look what it got them!)
> 
> Only all of Netflix's streaming thus most internet traffic in the U.S. 
> Also the base of OS X and some big name routers. Nothing of significance.

Streaming has little to do with the OS.  It's an application that could 
have been done with Windows.  OS-X uses BSD Userland which, again, is
applications and not OS.  Last I heard OS-X was using some some obscure
kernel called XNU that they developed in house.  From Wiki - "XNU is an
abbreviation of X is Not Unix."  So, I think that eliminates BSD.  The
routers I am familiar with (Netgear mostly) are running eiother Linux
or Busybox which is Linux based.  Cisco which is the largest supplier
of commercial routers uses a Closed Source company owned kernel.  So,
which ones do you know that are running BSD?  Don't get me wrong, BSD
is more than capable of doing these jobs.  30 years ago I built major
portions of the first network in NEPA (University of Scranton) using
home-built boxes running BSD.  But, the BSD guys seem to have little
interest in chasing after commercialization.

bill