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 | Bulletin # 20     The D. Joseph Benedict Manifesto      Updated: 02/28/98 |
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    D. Joseph Benedict is the "nomme d'plume" of our own @BBS@
    Sysop, David J. Dachtera.

    Watch this space for the current state of a work-in-progress, the
    D. Joseph Benedict Manifesto - a collection of thoughts, opinions,
    statements and musings regarding the Internet, OpenVMS, The Liturgy,
    Liturgical Music and secular music, and many other topics.

    On OpenVMS...

    The powerful and stable operating system we all know and love, now
    known as "OpenVMS", has carried many companies from their first 
    fledgling steps into the world of "micro EDP" into the "new age" of
    three tier client/server. In all EDP-dom, there is no parallel. UNIX
    is a wanna-be, at best (although nowadays it is VASTLY more stable
    than in its early years outside of its home on PDP's). DOS never could
    even dream about the kind of power, feature richness and overall
    stability of OpenVMS. Windows (sometimes called "Whine-Doze") follows
    DOS's suit. Then, of course, there's the PICKs, the IRIXes, AOSes, the
    OS/this and OS/that, etc. All of these suffer from severe feature
    poverty and instability compared to OpenVMS.

    And yet, in spite of this, these "wanna-be" operating systems have
    far outstripped OpenVMS, in some case, in terms of market acceptance 
    and appeal.

    In the words of Andy Rooney, "Why is that?"

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