Re: OT: Intels quickens cadence for new 8086s

In article <OF51CACFCF.BCEC670B-ON85257169.00591F9F-85257169.005972CC@xxxxxxxxx>, norm.raphael@xxxxxxxxx writes:

When I took the "Introduction to HP-UX" course, and told the
instructor that I came from a VMS background, he said IIRC that I
would find some things familiar, but most things harder to do, from
a system-management perspective. I never really got the chance to
work with Unix enough develop insights. VMS has been it for some time.

As with all UNIX, it depends.

BSD is somewhat harder to administer than VMS. SVID is much harder
than either BSD or VMS. SVID has too many ways to enter admin
data and then not be able to query the setting someone made last year.
.

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