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Re: Life after Windows 7

From Ryan Kavanagh <rkavanagh@cs.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Life after Windows 7
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Date 2019-06-08 12:30 -0400
Message-ID <87v9xgca5h.fsf@zeta.ryanak.ca> (permalink)

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On Fri, Jun 07 2019, RS Wood wrote:
> On 2019-06-07, Stephen Hall <s__hall@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>> I'm not familiar with VMS, but I definitely would like to play with it.
>
> It's an OS that fascinates me too, probably due to nostalgia but
> probably also because it had features that Linux struggles to emulate
> even now.

What main features do you have in mind / miss most? I never got to use
VMS, though I just spend a bit of time reading up on it. The
cluster-wide disk storage and "record-level locking" VMSclusters had
sounds interesting. (Maybe this is part of the filesystem/database
integration Scott mentioned earlier today?)

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      Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-21 10:58 +0000
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        Re: Life after Windows 7 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-05-22 22:30 -0400
        Re: Life after Windows 7 Stephen Hall <s__hall@gmail.com> - 2019-06-07 20:54 +0000
          Re: Life after Windows 7 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-06-07 23:07 -0400
            Re: Life after Windows 7 Ryan Kavanagh <rkavanagh@cs.cmu.edu> - 2019-06-08 12:30 -0400
          Re: Life after Windows 7 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-06-08 10:11 -0400
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