From: Paul Sture [paul@sture.ch]
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 9:16 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: VMS Vs any other OS

In article <5AUG200017283918@gerg.tamu.edu>, Carl Perkins wrote:
> From: carl@gerg.tamu.edu (Carl Perkins)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
> Subject: Re: VMS Vs any other OS
> Date: 5 Aug 2000 17:28 CST
> 
> David A Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> writes...
> }Hoff Hoffman wrote:
> }> 
> }>   Multi-user interactive user support, full shared-resources clustering,
> }>   uptime, robust file system with individual volume limits circa one TB
> }>   (and thousands of volumes), huge system performance and application
> }>   scaling, networked GUI interface, 64-bit flat virtual addressing,
> }>   built-in tools for local BACKUP and recovery, far better "DLL-like"
> }>   support for modular coding and distributions, built-in record management
> }>   support (heirarchical database), rolling upgrades of layered products
> }>   and the operating system in cluster environments (continuous uptime,
> }>   even with software upgrades), built-in batch-print capabilities, support
> }>   for a variety of networking protocols (COM, SMB, NFS, IP, DECnet, X.25,
> }>   http, etc), remote network system logins, built-in system dump and analysis
> }>   facilities, built-in multi-user security and auditing, built-in multiple
> }>   and mixed-language programming capabilities, good documentation, orderable
> }>   CD-ROM source listings of the operating system internals and source code,
> }>   process and engineering that targets the avoidance of introducing security
> }>   problems and typical virus infection paths, built-in system tuning tools,
> }>   built-in application debugging and application dump tools, support for
> }>   symmetric multiprocessing environments of up to 32 CPUs in a single
> }>   system (and up to 96+ nodes in a cluster), built-in standard product
> }>   installation tools and associated product installation packaging tools,
> }>   a central goal of upward-compatibility of user-mode applications and
> }>   tools over OpenVMS releases, support for systems with 256 gigabytes of
> }>   physical memory, available full operating system and hardware support
> }>   from a single source, etc.
> } 
> }And you said that all in one breath, no pauses? Impressive!  :-)
> } 
> }Dave
> 
> He is the very model of a modern software professional,
> He has information virtual, physical, and hypothetical,
> He knows the specs of ethernet, and quotes the dumps historical,
> From Morningstar to Wildfire, in order categorical;
> He's very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
> He understands equations, both the simple and quadratical,
> About VMS's features he's teeming with a lot o' news,
> With many cheerful facts about why it's what you should want to use.
> 
> (Sorry about that, Gilbert and Sullivan.)
> 
Brilliant!
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Paul Sture
Switzerland