Cave Men and Dinosaurs

[William Roberts;]

In <numb.675098076 at el_greco> numb at cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matt Newman) writes:

>I'm getting more and more fed up of trying to bring software from usenet
>up on our A/UX machines.

I think he's complaining about "mush" amongst other things. We don't run our 
A/UX machines in anything like a standard configuration, we don't use the 
Apple C compilers, we are mostly interested in language systems which do tend 
to get a bit machine specific, COFF files are something of a mystery to "Suns 
and VAXes" code.... We also have obselete systems to cooperate with, for 
example a Sequent Balance which doesn't believe in lockd.

>We have ~172 machines running A/UX 2.0.

Actually it is only about 110, but we'll get the other 40+ eventually. 2.0.1 
when we get the CD (which will presumably not happen until after I've ordered 
the CD).

>Personally A/UX 1.1.1 was better :-)

It wasn't significantly different for the kinds of things Matt is complaining 
about. On a more positive note, ask yourself which manufacturer who has 
released an operating system upgrade in the last 6 months has actually cleaned 
up their include files for ANSI C?  Not SunOS 4.1.1B. Yes, it's A/UX 2.0.1.

Will we be seeing a similar tirade on comp.sys.sun - they aren't planning to 
ship SVR4 anytime soon...
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