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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 5/4/21 9:25 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.
> 

All of them exist in some form in Unix except file versions and I have
never known anyone other than VMS users who saw value in them. Sorry.

bill