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- From: owen@nosc.mil (Wallace E. Owen)
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Message-ID: <1996Mar26.052134.21457@nosc.mil>
- Sender: news@nosc.mil
- Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA
- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4iutmh$790@ionews.ionet.net> <4j3qve$cv0@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <dewar.827685726@schonberg>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 05:21:34 GMT
-
- In article <dewar.827685726@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >Tore reacted to
- >
- >"moi (moi@news) wrote:
- >: you must not have know how to use it at all. Or maybe you don't like the
- >: features that win95 and others are just now getting that unix has had for 10+
- >: years. truth is.. unix is and will always be ahead of everything else.
- >
- >"
- >
- >Tore, when someone posts something like that, either they don't know what
- >they are talking about and should be ignored, or they are trolling. I
- >would guess the latter in this case :-)
- >
-
- I don't see it as a troll. Take X-windows, for example. What other windowing
- system works on so many platforms, and allows the compute-intensive portion
- of your application to run on a compute server while displaying output
- on a graphical server that's not colocated? What was the first OS to permit
- mounting another computer's disks over the net? Unix, with RPC/XDR/NFS.
- Yes, it's now available for some other OS's but none integrate it
- so well.
-
- Unix is also probably the best non-proprietary OS, with fair standards.
- Compared with Windows NT/95 or OS/2 (Sorry to put OS/2 in the same category
- as Windows), you're not locked in to a small collection of hardware ven-
- dors.
-
- There are several other firsts, of course. These are probably the most
- well-known.
-
-
- I'm not saying that it's the best OS. But it's good enough, and more standard
- than most. I know that in the Ada world we sometimes get a little pedantic
- (All of us), so when something's not 'perfect' in some regard we get a bit
- peeved, and that 'C' got where it is today by being 'good enough'. But
- until someone can point out a better OS available on all the platforms I
- use, I'll live with it.
-
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