why learn UNIX (because it's there)

[dalem at hpfcph.UUCP]

> Ok, so I like UNIX too, and I' rather not do development on VMS (or
> --OH, NO--- TSO, or MS-DOS), but VMS does have its good points.

Agreed.  I'm a UNIX fan, but DEC has done *some* things very well in VMS. 

[businesses need accounting...]
> and it's a lot harder to do high-performance transaction processing on
> UNIX systems than on VMS.

Why?

						Dale McCluskey

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