> It is amazing that things we took for granted on the HP3000 (temporary
> files, Batch jobs, Job queues, spooler, input priority, output
> priority, jobfence, outfence, jobq limits ...) are absent in UNIX
> world. There seems to be no serious context for batch processing.

The two OSs really come from two different views of the World.  MPE lays out
a process for you and implements it as an easy command.  Unix defines a set
of small tools that let's one put together to get a job done.  In MPE you're
more or less stuck with the process unless you go with a third-party
solution - of which there are some good ones.

(No knock to MPE, but it took MPE a bit to catch up with what you can do in
cron, which allows schedules by user.  Combine that with a better shell, you
can do quite a bit.)

Mark W.

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