On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Brian Hurt wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Mike Miller wrote: > >> It is interesting that so many people believe that VMS is superior to >> UNIX OSs, yet VMS is basically dying and being replaced by UNIX/Linux. >> This has been going on for a decade or so, at least at universities. > > Unix has one advantage VMS doesn't/didn't have: Unix is open source. Well, some UNIX OSs are open source, some are not. A decade ago when many university systems were switching over from VMS to UNIX, I didn't hear much about open source. I'm not sure why they were doing it. It could be that DEC was just charging too much and universities were saving money with UNIX. I don't know. Anyone know the history? Incidentally, UNIX is older than VMS. I used to think it was the other way around but someone taught me otherwise a few years ago. Mike _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list