Richard Gambrell wrote:
 
>You would think that some vendor would be able to make money out of all
>this "breakage" by moving to actually support what we need/want (and
>worked very well for many of us) and giving us a good alternative path. As
>far as I can tell, Microsoft (with NT server) is the most likely (if they
>ever learn rate reliabilty over functionality) to pick up this ball -
>after all, it is not an 'Open' system (MPE is more open the NT).
 
Just out of interest, how would you convince a non-MPEer that MPE is
more open than NT?  After all, in each case, the OS is defined by a
single vendor (unlike UNIX).  Both also support POSIX, to some degree.
Also, NT runs on more platforms than MPE ...
 
(Just playing devil's advocate here; I've been using MPE for 17 years,
NT for only one.)
 
-Bob
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