fc2 or not, that is the question...

John Wendel john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Wed May 19 22:57:17 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 19 May 2004 02:55 pm, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 08:46:01PM -0400, Mike Bartman wrote:
> > At 04:51 PM 5/17/04 -0400, duncan brown wrote:
> > >Mike Bartman said:
> > >> At 12:09 PM 5/15/04 -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> > >>>production environments, hell my employer still runs openvms. some
>
> ...
> ...
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> > "Old" implies that it hasn't changed in a long time.  At least, that's
> > how
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> ...
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> > Very true.  Unix is older though, by a few years.
>
> ...
> There are still some Multix machines out there folks ;-)
>
> Operating systems like programming languages have feature sets that
> let them do some tasks better than other environments.  VMS is a good
> OS for some business tasks in ways that Linux cannot touch (yet?).
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> --
> 	T o m  M i t c h e l l
> 	/dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.


Thats "MULTICS", and the last Multics machine was shutdown in 2000 (Google is 
your friend). It had a great run, but I'm sure Linux will have a greater one.

Regards,

John





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