He He Very Mladen San, just kidding. Of course I know Mogens' obsession with Very Mighty Systems, Very Unmoderate Scotch and ancient Oracle software. Let's stop this or you'll have to ask me to bring this OT item off-list. ;-) Carel-Jan On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 22:07, Gogala, Mladen wrote: > 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). > > -- > Mladen Gogala > A & E TV Network > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------