UNIX-PC Unix version (2 or 3)
loci!clb
loci at killer.UUCP
Tue May 3 04:16:30 AEST 1988
In article <430 at jonlab.UUCP>, jon at jonlab.UUCP (Jon LaBadie) writes:
> In article <953 at hsi.UUCP>, stevens at hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes:
> > The 3b1 UNIX is truly a hybrid of System V, Release 2.0 (enhanced version)
> > and System V, Release 3.0. ....
> I must strongly disagree!
> True, paging and shared libraries (and record locking) are in both systems.
> ...
> ... Had the PC succeeded,
> the plan was to make release 4 of the UNIX-PC software compatible with
> ...
>
Had the PC succeeded? Mine succeeds just fine. In my view there
is an enormous gulf between what AT&T sees as a success and true
success. The measure of computers should not be entrusted to so
many greedy bean counters.
The 7300 works much better, much more reliably and much faster
that the pdp-11 (version 7) or the Altos xenix boxes that I
have worked with in the past. You have to be a nit-picker to
find things that don't work, whereas many other systems have
so many bugs that they crawl all over. And any one who tries
to do useful work with an MS-DOS machine knows what a mess that
is.
Just because the company that (doesn't) supports the machine
can't succeed for their own folly is no reason to blame the
machine, it's design or it's function. Money is all they
understand... not excellence or utility or value. Just the
almighty buck. As an engineer and programmer, I reserve the
right to decide for myself.
Charles Brunow
clb at loci.UUCP
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