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Aucbvax.5885 fa.info-vax utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Thu Jan 21 02:05:24 1982 Re: pandora's box >From Peter.Lucas@CMU-10A Thu Jan 21 02:02:35 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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