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Rich - Having worked in both unix and vms for quite some time (vms 4.7+, various unix flavors), I see one advantage of vms over unix, acl's and varying degrees of security. Overall, they both serve a better OS for oracle than windoze. If Dec ported vms to the intel 286 chip, MS may not be around but thats history. IMHO, I prefer unix over vms.
fwiw,
Gene
PS. I made all my vms boxes act like my unix boxes, even have a vms crontab and grep :).
>>> Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com 08/27/02 02:53PM >>> OK, not to start a war, but those of us that have worked on both Unix and VMS know (or should know) that there are significant advantages (and therefore, disadvantages) to each. For example:
Advantages
VMS
Unix
Disadvantages
VMS
VMS (see Oracle's DCL procedures and hokey setup).
Slower I/O than Tru64 on same hardware.
Software RAID 1 and 0 is a cost option.
DCL's structure (!)
Unix
no delete bit in file access)
User management
Queuing
Generic error messages
That's just my take on it. I started working with VMS around 4.5 back in '87/'88. I now work mostly with HP/UX 11.0. I like Unix, but I do sorely miss the overall structure and consistency of VMS.
I don't buy the "the rest of us are on *NIX" argument, either. "Everyone else" is on Windows and that sorry excuse can't hold a candle to a real server OS. </flame: off -- run for cover>
:)
Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Lembark [mailto:lembark_at_wrkhors.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 12:44 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Unix question: how to display SID and path in prompt
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> -- "Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
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> > Starting in VMS 7.0 or 7.1 (I forget which), you *can* use pipes:
> >
> > $ GREP := SEARCH SYS$PIPE
> > $ PIPE SHOW SYSTEM | GREP ora_
> >
> > And it gets even better with "SET PROCESS/PARSE=EXTENDED"
> on the Alphas...
> >
> > :)
>
> Uncle Kenny's ghost can enjoy them; the rest of us are
> on *NIX :-)
>
> --
> Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer
> Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647
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