From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 10 07:48:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13797 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 07:48:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA13751 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 07:47:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA25297; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:46:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36C1A9CF.8B744006@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:46:23 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com CC: Nadav Eiron , pechter@shell.monmouth.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VAXen in FreeBSD ( was Re: Women in FreeBSD) References: <199902091445.GAA04663@implode.root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Greenman wrote: > > >> > Wes Peters wrote: > >> > > >> > Yeah, I'm so manly I converted her. > >> > > >> > (From VMS to FreeBSD. To the best of my knowlege, she was not and > >> > is not a lesbian.) > >> > >> Interesting how many Ex-VMS types move to FreeBSD instead of Linux. > >> Anyone have any idea as to what that reason is... > >> > >> I've got mine -- the fact that VMS is an operating system rather than > >> a kernel and a different distribution. > > > >I don't think so. At least that's not my reason. I think it's a matter of > >market segment it aims at: VMS aims at servers that need to run without a > >crash for years, and that's what FreeBSD excels at as well. Funny, I got there through the workstations that need to run without a crash for years avenue. If course, I used to work in UNIX work- stations that used Oracle on VMS as a data store. That was a sick (and stupid) thing to do, but not my call. > For what it's worth, I was a long-time VAX/VMS guy prior to getting > involved with BSD Unix. And you're feeling much better now, right? ;^) > Several other core members also have significant > amounts of VMS in their history. I'm not sure this says anything in > particular, but I think it's interesting nonetheless. I think most of them ended up in VMS jr. -- Winders NT. At least, most of the ones I worked with did. Good riddance to bad rubbish, in most cases. They've almost finished the latest release of their all-seeing, all-knowing security analysis product for NT, a port from my original UNIX version. They were "on the verge" of releasing it when I left the company 4.5 years ago, if that gives you any idea of their level of productivity on NT. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message