Re: UNIX vs VMS

In article <462vqg$q07$3_at_mhadg.production.compuserve.com> Paul Collins <76004.2053_at_CompuServe.COM> writes:
>working on OpenVMS. (never did know what was Open about VMS). I

I think it was something really silly, like unix was supposed to be open because of published standards (like Posix shells, SPEC 1170 and so forth), and someone at DEC noticed that VMS met more of the standards than some contemporaneous unixes, hence the buzzword was added.

HELP OPENVMS gives:

Sorry, no documentation on OPENVMS

Of course, so does just about anything. Don't stand next to the doc bookcase during an earthquake. :)

>loved VMS but wake up and smell the coffee. And don't believe
>everything managment tells you. They always support a product
>until they day they dump it.
>
>--
>Paul Collins
>DBA
>DATASTORM Technologies

I was most amazed when I complained about my 1987(?) vintage Courier HST, and they told me to ship it to them and they upgraded it for free. Just cause I couldn't make Procomm work with it (this was about two years ago).

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