Re: 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 12:10:15 +0000 (UTC)

>> > Announcing....
>> >
>> > LINUX AND THE UNIX PHILOSOPHY
>> >
>> > A new book by Mike Gancarz
>> > now available from Digital Press
>
> I've read the other book from him "The UNIX philosophy". It is a good
> read and does explain a few things that makes UNIX make a little more
> sense.
>
> However one criticism of that book (I can't comment on the newer one) is
> that he does a bit of comparison between VMS and UNIX, and his VMS
> skills were such that when he is pointing out what he felt was an
> advantage in UNIX over other OS's, his skillset of VMS didn't cover how
> you could achieve on VMS what he thought was so great about UNIX.

He claims to be working together in one company with the top VMS guruīs of
the world so if he did let check what he said about UNIX vs VMS and other
OSīs it would be a little dumb of him.

You can say Unix an advantage over a limited group of the OSīes.
But there are too many OS out there where the knowledge about it is only
know to the happy few.

And every advantage has his disadvantage at the same time.

> However I did find it well written, and "enthusiastically written" if
> that conjures up a writing style.

You canīt judge a book on this weak points you need also try to look at the
strong points like how enthusiasically the author is about UNIX.
 

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