Re: Good point of Linux over Windows NT

Alexander Sanda (alex@darkstar.ping.at)
Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:27:04 GMT


In article <32E7B12B.6553BC04@result.com>,
Jay Thorne <jay@result.com> wrote:

>Too bad VMS costs your first born and the third finger of your left
>hand. It was
>_way_ too hardware dependent. The Alpha Chip in VMS guise implements
>emulation of a bunch of that
>stuff.
>
>( Andy Tannenbaum would have given Dave Cutler (who wrote VMS and
>designed NT ) a failing grade )

If I remember the "Linux is obsolete" thread, I think, he would have
given it to Linus too.

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