[Info-vax] Security, support and VMS, was: Re: A new VMS?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <ifcu1jFphjgU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
<bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes: 

> On 5/4/21 8:11 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > VMS is not Unix or Windows.
> > 
> > This is good because it has functionality that neither of them have.
> > 
> 
> I was going to let this slide by, but it just stuck in my
> craw.
> 
> What "functionality" does VMS have that Unix and Windows don't?
> 
> Remember, we are talking "functionality", not just doing something
> in a different manner.

Trivially, any Turing machine can emulate another, so they all have the 
same functionality.  As for usefulness, top of the list for VMS are 
logical names, clustering, fine-grained security concept, HBVS, and file 
versions.