> 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. -- Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA shrek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine (Song of Solomon 6:3) -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------