Re: Micro$oft woos world's scientists...

From: Bob Koehler (koehler_at_eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org)
Date: 07/01/05 

Date: 1 Jul 2005 15:57:01 -0500

In article <1120220845.441311.171140@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, mb301@hotmail.com writes:
> Microsoft's British research arm is looking into what kind of software
> scientists will require in the future....
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4638583.stm
>
> Howabout a competent operating system like OpenVMS?

   Doing science programming on VMS is a wonderfull thing. Unfortunatly
   most of it is CPU intensive and moved to RISC back when that meant
   undergoing the pain of UNIX. Its not likey to come back.

   I do appreciate it when our friend from UMD posts here. It means
   there's some small hope.