A book that explains what is better ultrix or vms.

From: Jeroen M.W. van Dijk (jmw.vandijk_at_quicknet.nl)
Date: 11/10/03 

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:26:10 +0000 (UTC)

Were can I buy this book? I´m a OpenVMS guy and I want to learn a little
about Tru64 philosophy.

Mike Gancarz <mgancarz@excite.com> wrote in
news:EEYXa.9735$jg.2594816@news1.news.adelphia.net:

> Announcing....
>
> LINUX AND THE UNIX PHILOSOPHY
>
> A new book by Mike Gancarz
> now available from Digital Press
>
>
> * It has a fun chapter about Elvis vs. the Stones. One of them
> is Open
> Source. The other belongs in a cathedral. Can you guess which?
> * If you think that video is the most powerful medium, read what
> I have
> to say about text.
> * The Gandhi quote is very cool, especially when you realize how
> prophetic his statement was about Linux.
> * It hints at the old VMS-versus-Ultrix battle that took place
> inside
> Digital for years. Guess what? The battle has gone mainstream.
> Which do you suppose is winning?
> * You will understand why the Unix philosophy has been
> persistently
> successful for more than 25 years. It will continue to be long into
> the future.
> * Jon "maddog" Hall has written a powerful foreword for the book.
> Man,
> talk about a giant in the Linux industry. I could tell you stories
> about maddog....but not in this forum.
>
>
> ABOUT THE AUTHOR (stuff you won't find on the back cover of the book)
>
> I used to work in Digital's Ultrix Engineering Group at Spit Brook
> Road in Nashua, NH. While there, I focused on the Unix commands and
> utilities set. I wrote the popular chpt(8) command, the tool that let
> you slice and dice Unix partitions to your heart's content. I was
> also a member of the original X Window System development team with
> the folks at MIT's Project Athena. I wrote the "uwm" window manager,
> the first customizable window manager for X. Later on, I was part of
> the skunk works operation in Hudson, NH that produced the port of
> Ultrix to the 64-bit Alpha in less than a year.
>
> In between Nashua and Hudson, I was the senior Ultrix consultant in
> the Atlanta Customer Support Center for 3 years. Some of you may have
> even spoken with me on the phone. I hope I was nice to you.
>
>
> So that's it. That's my plug. Go out and buy the book. You, too,
> can then become a Unix guru. (If you're not one already.)
>
> One more thing if you've read this far: This is my first public
> announcement of the book. That's right. You read it here first. You
> can tell everyone that when they're all talking about the book
> elsewhere.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike Gancarz
>
> p.s. Amazon's editorial listing was munged. The stuff about "Customer
> Relationship Management" is bogus. The publisher has been getting on
> them to fix it. <sigh>
>
>

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