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 > > ... > ... > > > "Old" implies that it hasn't changed in a long time. At least, that's > > how > > ... > > > 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?). > > > > -- > 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
