[Info-vax] DECUServe is a Hobbyist Chapter

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rdqd6l$f66$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) writes: 

> Yes, splitting decnet off was a big advance.  But in a perfect world,
> every part of the system would be a layered product and they would all
> just layer on top of one another.  It took the Unix world many decades
> before Solaris was built this way, but now it's become quite ordinary
> there.  The ability to build a system that has just the pieces that you
> need is a big deal in the modern world where people use the same OS for
> radically different applications. 

Not that long ago, I remember people here complaining that TCPIP was not 
an integral part of VMS, even that a Webserver wasn't an integral part, 
that all of that stuff should be installed, set up, and configured by 
default.  :-|