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- From: thp@cs.ucr.edu (Tom Payne)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 16:56:16 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Riverside
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- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <dewar.827955102@schonberg> <Dp28JB.y0@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> <dewar.828332940@schonberg> <4jok7f$1l2@solutions.solon.com>
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- Peter Seebach (seebs@solutions.solon.com) wrote:
- : In article <dewar.828332940@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- : >For me, typical Unix systms = AIX, IRIX, Dec UNIX, HPUX etc. Lots of
- : >people rushed to say that Linux could run on small systems. True
- : >enough, but Linux is NOT a "typical Unix system"!
- :
- : No? How so? It's at least as common as any other, probably, and quite
- : widely distributed. It's recently been POSIX certified, or so we hear.
-
- My subjective impression is that at the USENIX Technical Conference in
- San Diego in January there was more discussion of Linux and than of
- AIX, IRIX, Dec UNIX and HPUX combined. Certainly there was far more
- discussion of Linux than of any one of them. Linux seems to be
- rapidly becoming the de facto standard to which UNIX implementations
- are compared, especially for performance.
-
- Tom Payne (thp@cs.ucr.edu)
-