In article <19950615124144.bloksber at thomashaw-at.css.msu.edu>,
bloksber at pilot.msu.edu (Leonard N. Bloksberg) writes:
> In Article <3r53pp$efq at reeve.research.aa.wl.com> "schultp at aa.wl.com (Paul Schultz)" says:
>> The UNIX environment wins hands down in terms of overall performance from
>> the users perspective.
>>>> Paul Schultz
>>> I'll second this. We switched from VMS to UNIX on an SGI about 2yrs ago, and
> I've been very happy with it. Unix makes it easier for me to write batches,
> aliases, and other tricks to make it easier for the computer illiterate
> folks in the lab to use GCG. As archane as GCG can be, it is now (finally)
> in general use in the lab, while under VMS the staff considered it unusable.
> I don't know where it's easier to run as a sys-admin, but if the end users
> can't use it on VMS, who cares? My .02.
I hereby express my complete and utter astonishment at this.
What *is* the world coming to ?
*sigh* ... enough said.
Roy Omond
System Manager
European Bioinformatics Institute
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Hinxton, Cambs., UK.
