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- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
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- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 14:53:37 GMT
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- In article <4jp1rh$22l@galaxy.ucr.edu>, thp@cs.ucr.edu (Tom Payne) says:
-
- > Linux seems to be
- >rapidly becoming the de facto standard to which UNIX implementations
- >are compared, especially for performance.
-
- How ironic. Sun, IBM, ATT, DEC et al. cannot manage to set a standard
- for UNIX. It takes a single programmer who decides to port UNIX for his
- own PC -- that's the 'de facto' standard. (Granted, LINUX has gone far
- since those early days).
-
- I work with UNIX, administer UNIX but I still don't like it. 90% of
- the time, I'd rather be working on my NT box. But then I have the hardware
- for NT and many I support are challenged enough by NT's and Win95's UI --
- They wouldn't have a prayer of getting anything done in UNIX. (Nothing
- against them, they are good people -- it is just that if you want to do
- something useful in UNIX, there is an expensive learning curve.)
-
- Ross
-