On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Ryan Ware wrote: > Linux is a lowest common denomenator operating system. It runs on > commodity hardware that everyone and their dog has. VMS doesn't. That > makes it more likely that things get ported to it first. That doesn't > mean Linux is better than VMS in quality only that more stuff is ported > to it. Incidentally, portability has been why UNIX has expanded while > other "superior" OS's have shrunk in market share. C is portable > assembly for the most part, so UNIX could be made to run on any hardware > that came down the pipe easily or at least easier than almost anything > else. Essentially, the claim here is that a single superior feature of UNIX/Linux has caused it to outsell VMS even though VMS has many superior features when compared with UNIX/Linux. So C code compiles more easily on UNIX/Linux than on VMS? Maybe it was true even a decade ago that more software was readily available for UNIX than for VMS. I can believe that, but does anyone know if that is true? Mike _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list