VMS is not the evil empire

[Dick St.Peters]

In article <2528 at pdn.UUCP> reggie at pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) writes:
>      Well when I was with Bellcore our lab utilized Ultrix 1.0 on some
>VAX 780's.  ...
>
>      Now, of course all that has changed and it was their first attempt at
>UNIX, ...
It was more like their zero'th attempt.  When we got Ultrix 1.0, we
bought source - and paid a bundle for it.  It looked a bit familiar -
in fact, it was essentially identical to the BSD 4.2 source we already
had.  After dozens of diffs, the only difference I ever found was in
the kernel source: DEC had replaced one BSD macro with a procedure.

Management bought installation, but when the FE showed up to do the
install, we already had Ultrix running.  Good thing too, 'cuz the FE
had never installed it.

However, DEC has come a long way since then, and instead of bashing
them for taking so long to get on the UNIX bandwagon, shouldn't we be
welcoming them aboard?

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Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters at ge-crd.arpa              
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