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> It stands for Very Mighty System. It is the best operating
> system that I've ever seen. VMS help was far better and far
> more use friendly then Unix man pages. Monitor was state of the
> art, and you can't get anything even remotely like it on Unix,
> not even if you pay. Files-11 had clustering capabilities since
> VMS 4.2, which was very , very long time ago. DEC has always
> been a company with great engineering and apalling sales force,
> that's why they ended up as a part of a nice printer company, as
> Mr. Scott McNeally has put it. VMS is still unbeaten as an operating
> system. Particularly good was EVE (not the woman who used to
> talk to reptiles and didn't know how to make an apple pie, but
> the Extended VAX Editor).
i still have a copy of most of the grey wall. if someone has a good home for it.
-- Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA shrek_at_consulant.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine (Song of Solomon 6:3) -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request_at_freelists.org put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------Received on Mon Aug 30 2004 - 15:14:45 CDT
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