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Thu Jan 21 01:12:58 1982
re: Pandora's box
>From Peter.Lucas@CMU-10A Thu Jan 21 00:58:25 1982
The favorite reasons (generally) *administrators*
(a dirty word) use for selecting VMS is
"maintainability". Our Psychology department
selected VMS for this reason, against the loud
protests of all who actually use the machine.
As both a user and a sometime *administrator* of the CMU psychology
vaxen (and one who was present at the proceedings), let me set the
record straight:
The issue of whether to run Unix or VMS in the department was
debated at great length in public forum. Our highest priorities were a
very stable, reliable lisp system -- not necessarily absolutely
state-of-the-art -- and one that could be easily maintained given our
limited resources and interest in system development. From these
discussions emerged a strong consensus favoring VMS. The final
decision was made by vote of the department computing committee, all of
whom are users and only I an *administrator*. There were exactly two
dissenting votes. The "loud protests" came from a small minority of
True Believers.
-PAL
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