Help us defend against VMS! -- DEC perspective

[Michael T Sullivan]

In article <8803071927.AA02829 at decwrl.dec.com>, devine at cookie.dec.com (Bob Devine) writes:
>   For the future, DEC is behind POSIX.  Not some vendor-specific version
> of Unix that would be closed to others (subtle, aren't I?).

As opposed to the open VMS standard backed by millions of vendor-types?

-or-

Yeah, I know what you mean.  Next thing you know, DEC will want to change
VMS without letting everybody in on it!

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