The big difference between UNIX and VMS:
To do anything on UNIX, you need to know an obscure command.
To do anything on VMS, you need to know an obscure option to SET.
-- Peter da Silva
To do anything on UNIX, you need to know an obscure command.
To do anything on VMS, you need to know an obscure option to SET.
-- Peter da Silva
Related:
- Quote #281
Dave Cutler's comment on the WNT=VMS+1:
"It took you this long to notice?" -- Peter da... - runic adj.
Syn. obscure. VMS fans sometimes refer to
Unix as `Runix';
Unix fans return the compliment by expanding VMS ... - One of the questions that comes up all the time is:
How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? Unix was... - One of the questions that comes up all the time is:
How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? ... - You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about,
do you realize that? -- Peter Da... - runic: adj. Syn. {obscure}. VMS fans sometimes refer to UNIX as
`Runix';
UNIX fans return the compliment by expanding VMS to... - Installing unix fixes the
[VMS] bug...
From the same category:
- Opposition. In small matters,
good fortune... - I cannot give you a formula for success but I can give you the formula
for failure-
which is: Try to please everybody. -- Herbert Bayard... - Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined,
hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles... - I live in a house,
but belong in a HOME... - screwage: /skroo'*j/ n. Like {lossage} but connotes that the
failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple
inadequacy or a mere bug.
The AI Hackers...
