giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere) (12/15/90)
In article <16543@cbmvax.commodore.com> martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt) writes: >VMS still holds well over half the market. Of course, Unix will eventually >win out as it becomes more of a standard. ^^^^^^^^^^ Didn't DEC recently announce that they won't be supporting VMS anymore and are concentrating solely on Ultrix? ("no support"=="no upgrades") -- Eric Giguere giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA Quoth the raven: "Eat my shorts!" --- Poe & Groening
rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) (12/16/90)
[ Followups to alt.religion.computers only. ] In article <1990Dec15.045518.25546@maytag.waterloo.edu> giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere) writes: >Didn't DEC recently announce that they won't be supporting VMS anymore and >are concentrating solely on Ultrix? ("no support"=="no upgrades") No. Anton +---------------------------+------------------+-------------+ | Anton Rang (grad student) | rang@cs.wisc.edu | UW--Madison | +---------------------------+------------------+-------------+
ST402248@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Scott Porter) (12/17/90)
>Didn't DEC recently announce that they won't be supporting VMS anymore and >are concentrating solely on Ultrix? ("no support"=="no upgrades") > >-- >Eric Giguere giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA > Quoth the raven: "Eat my shorts!" --- Poe & Groening Complete and total BullSh*t. This is complete misinformation. Dec is currently shipping VMS V5.4 and V5.5 has already been spec'd. I'm not advocating VMS even though I'm very used to it and use it most of the time, but the vast majority of VAX's currently run VMS and DEC is still upgrading and adding major features such as new networking protocols, security features, data integrity(volume shadowing, etc...). DEC still has a lot of really talented people adding state of the art features to VMS, and it certainly doesn't lag behind UNIX in its implementation of new technology. Religious preferences in operating systems aside, there is nothing technologically outdated (compared to UNIX) in VMS. -- Scott (ST402248@Brownvm.brown.edu)
wuethri@ifi.unizh.ch (12/17/90)
Please move this one to where it belongs..... We've already had enough
inapprpriate comp.sys.wars belongings. Enough is enough
Charles
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Univ. of Zurich, 8057 Zurich-Irchel, Switzerland | k114910@czhrzu1a.bitnetjohnhlee@hermod.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee) (12/21/90)
In article <1990Dec15.045518.25546@maytag.waterloo.edu> giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere) writes: >Didn't DEC recently announce that they won't be supporting VMS anymore and >are concentrating solely on Ultrix? ("no support"=="no upgrades") Not exactly. Quoted without permission from _Digital News_, Oct. 29: "VMS takes steps toward open system" by John Cox Digital Equipment Corp. officals said VMS will become Posix-compliant sometime next year, meaning that applications written to Posix standards will be able to run under VMS or UNIX. [Remainder of article deleted.] VMS won't be dropped, but merely enhanced. DEC can't drop VMS without losing 50-75% of its VAX business customers. What does this have to do with Amiga UNIX anymore? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DiskDoctor threatens the crew! Next time on AmigaDos: The Next Generation. John Lee Internet: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu The above opinions of those of the user, and not of this machine.