Jan wrote:
>
> I seem to recall that VMS was the inspiration for Windows NT (Not
> There). Can anyone say "Blue Screen Of Death?" :-)
>
>From what I have heard it was the "inspiration", but regardless of what the
inspiration was, once MS gets there hands on it they can stuff it up in
their own way.
Example: I have worked on several VMS production systems which were not
rebooted for
>6 months - these systems supported several hundred users of business
critical applications. Any Windows machine I have been involved with has to
be rebooted regularly just to get it to run properly, and what about
installing new software, or changing a few minor network settings.
Wayne Harridge
Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Louvre/6152/
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