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- From: tojst1+@pitt.edu (Tore Joergensen)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
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- Date: 26 Mar 1996 14:34:20 GMT
- Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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- Wallace E. Owen (owen@nosc.mil) wrote:
- : >"moi (moi@news) wrote:
- : >:truth is.. unix is and will always be ahead of everything else.
-
- : 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.
-
- Take SOM and DSOM. I think SOM (System Object Model) was available for OS/2
- before it was available for AIX. A language independent object model is nice
- (OK, I'm not sure what is/was available on NextStep, but at least it is
- something that most Unixs don't/didn't have). DSOM allows language independent,
- OS independent, Computer independent objects that can be accessed across a
- network. I'm not sure how well CORBA will implement language independence,
- but DSOM is supposed to be compliant with the CORBA standard (which as far
- as I know isn't finished yet... don't ask me how something can be compliant
- with something that don't exist :-). Anyway, since Unix has been so popular in
- academic/research communities, it has more "I was first"s than most OSs. That
- doesn't mean that it is first with everything. OS/2 has some "I was first"s,
- and Amiga has some. The supprising thing is that Windows don't have more (if
- they have any).
-
- : 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.
-
- Unix is one of very few non-proprietary OSs. I think it is wrong to say that
- you are locked to a small collection of hardware _vendors_ if you use PCs
- though :-). Of course there aren't much difference between the products
- from PC vendors, but there are lots of them. You are locked to one OS vendor
- if you use Windows or OS/2 though (and hardware vendor for Mac, Amiga, Atari
- ST and lots of others).
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