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To: rudedog who wrote (73806)	10/22/1998 12:21:00 PM
From: JRI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

OT Rude- You crushed that dude with your (technical) knowledge....I want you to know that I spend my days reading technical manuals and "The history of VMS/VAX/UNIX- The real story", Volumes I-XXI during all breaks from the market....Look out, I plan to verbally assault you sometime around 2008 <g>

To: rudedog who wrote (73806)	10/22/1998 2:08:00 PM
From: Paul Merriwether	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

<< When UNIX was still locked into a few arcane university and scientific applications, DEC and Cutler took the next step - the 32 bit VMS / VAX development. Remember VMS? Cluster capable, big SMP capable, reliability which beat the mainframe operating systems hands-down? That was 10 years before any UNIX had similar capability. >> The pdp=8 days were a little before my time but I do remember playing with the VMS on VAXes. Was not aware that VAX was SMP capable. Didn't it just have a "VAX" cpu and talked to peripherals over "UNI"/"Q" bus? Could it actually have multiple CPU's on a basckplane? Didn't think so, but could be wrong. And if so, did they have Spin-locking like mechanism etc. that NT uses? VMS. The dog! I vaguely remember that people made liberal use of shared memory to boost performance for IPC. Also that later VMS introduced some good ideas like RPC that were later adopted by others.