RE: Oracle-L going unmoderated

  • From: "bill thater" <shrek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:17:19 -0500


> It stands for Very Mighty System. It is the best operating
> system that I've ever seen. VMS help was far better and far
> more use friendly then Unix man pages. Monitor was state of the
> art, and you can't get anything even remotely like it on Unix,
> not even if you pay. Files-11 had clustering capabilities since
> VMS 4.2, which was very , very long time ago. DEC has always
> been a company with great engineering and apalling sales force,
> that's why they ended up as a part of a nice printer company, as 
> Mr. Scott McNeally has put it. VMS is still unbeaten as an operating
> system. Particularly good was EVE (not the woman who used to  
> talk to reptiles and didn't know how to make an apple pie, but 
> the Extended VAX Editor).

i still have a copy of most of the grey wall.  if someone has a good home for 
it.


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Bill "Shrek" Thater     ORACLE DBA     
       shrek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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