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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada Operating System
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:54:10 -0500
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Now modeling it on VMS would be something interesting - not an exact clone,
but at least something that looked similar. (IMHO, the only reason VMS
wasn't the winner of the OS wars was because DEC wouldn't/couldn't release
it for use on anything other than DEC hardware.) There were things about VMS
that I thought were bad ideas - notably a file system wherein all the DEC
experts would repeatedly warn you not to try to duplicate the "copy" utility
in your own source code. But there were still lots of wonderful things about
it.

Does anybody know of a OS textbook that uses VMS as its model for
discussion?

MDC
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"Gary Scott" <scottg@flash.net> wrote in message
news:3C8EAFF7.B6CFF9A6@flash.net...
> If we want an open source version of an existing operating system, why
> in the world pick an abomination like UNIX.  At least choose something
> half-way decent like VMS or even VM.
>
>