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- From: steve@hn.hn.planet.gen.nz (Steve Detoni)
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- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
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- Date: 10 Apr 1996 22:00:49 +1200
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- Lawrence Kirby (fred@genesis.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : In article <dewar.828332940@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu "Robert Dewar" writes:
-
- : >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"!
-
- : Intel based systems are probably still the most numerous commercial
- : Unix systems out there (SCO, Unixware, Solaris plus others). These are full
- : UNIX(tm) systems.
- Please, please don't add SCO Unix to this list as I had to write some
- multiuser, client/server software for it, and it's not as easy to program
- named pipes as one would hoped! However, when compared to the microsoft
- beast 'Windows', then it's a dream.
-
- steve.
-