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On VMS - Here Here -
peter
edinburgh
Monday, August 30, 2004, 9:07:48 PM, you wrote:
GM> It stands for Very Mighty System. It is the best operating GM> system that I've ever seen. VMS help was far better and far GM> more use friendly then Unix man pages. Monitor was state of the GM> art, and you can't get anything even remotely like it on Unix, GM> not even if you pay. Files-11 had clustering capabilities since GM> VMS 4.2, which was very , very long time ago. DEC has always GM> been a company with great engineering and apalling sales force, GM> that's why they ended up as a part of a nice printer company, as GM> Mr. Scott McNeally has put it. VMS is still unbeaten as an operating GM> system. Particularly good was EVE (not the woman who used to GM> talk to reptiles and didn't know how to make an apple pie, but GM> the Extended VAX Editor). GM> -- GM> Mladen Gogala
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Carel-Jan Engel [mailto:cjpengel.dbalert_at_xs4all.nl]
>> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:51 PM
>> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>> Subject: Re: Oracle-L going unmoderated
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>> VMS, what does that stand for? Very Moderate Scotch? I
>> thought you're taste was better ;-) Carel-Jan
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