Re[2]: Oracle-L going unmoderated
- From: Peter Robson <pgro@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Gogala, Mladen" <Mladen.Gogala@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:27:23 +0100
On VMS - Here Here -
peter
edinburgh
Monday, August 30, 2004, 9:07:48 PM, you wrote:
GM> It stands for Very Mighty System. It is the best operating
GM> system that I've ever seen. VMS help was far better and far
GM> more use friendly then Unix man pages. Monitor was state of the
GM> art, and you can't get anything even remotely like it on Unix,
GM> not even if you pay. Files-11 had clustering capabilities since
GM> VMS 4.2, which was very , very long time ago. DEC has always
GM> been a company with great engineering and apalling sales force,
GM> that's why they ended up as a part of a nice printer company, as
GM> Mr. Scott McNeally has put it. VMS is still unbeaten as an operating
GM> system. Particularly good was EVE (not the woman who used to
GM> talk to reptiles and didn't know how to make an apple pie, but
GM> the Extended VAX Editor).
GM> --
GM> Mladen Gogala
GM> A & E TV Network
GM> Ext. 1216
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Carel-Jan Engel [mailto:cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:51 PM
>> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Oracle-L going unmoderated
>>
>>
>> VMS, what does that stand for? Very Moderate Scotch? I
>> thought you're taste was better ;-) Carel-Jan
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