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Unic Adj. Syn. Obscure. VMS Fans Sometimes Refer To Unix As `Runix'
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runic adj.
Syn. obscure. VMS fans sometimes refer to
Unix as `Runix'; Unix fans return the compliment by expanding VMS
to `Very Messy Syntax' or `Vachement Mauvais Système' (French
idiom, "Hugely Bad System").
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unic: adj. Syn. {obscure}. VMS fans sometimes refer to UNIX as `Runix'
UNIX fans return the compliment by expanding VMS to `Very Messy Syntax' or `Vachement Mauvais Syst`eme' (French...
VMS: /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....
VMS /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....
Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
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...
UNIX isn't so tough, even secretaries can use it." -- VMS use
hell [orig. Multics n. techspeak, widely propagated via Unix] 1.
[techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system...
From an operating system research point of view, Unix is -- if not dead -- certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.
The beauty of UNIX is that it's simple; and the beauty of VMS is that it's all there.
-- DECWORLD Volume 8, number 5...