Do OS's slow down with age? (was: DDJ article / UNIX vs BS/2)

[John Hascall]

In article <12938 at steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
   [.... much ado about OS speed ....]
>  Note that DEC is not using VMS on their new RISC machine. 

   No kidding?  Since it uses a MIPS CPU+FPU and since VMS is (mostly)
   written in VAX-11 assembler and BLISS-32 ... isn't that obvious?

   John Hascall
 
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