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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!snuffy!mtarrant
- From: mtarrant@snuffy.wa.atk.com (Mike Tarrant)
- Subject: Re: Tcl to replacement most of /bin & /usr/bin (was: Tcl on Linux
- Message-ID: <BxtH4s.Ezx@snuffy.wa.atk.com>
- Organization: Alliant TechSystems Inc.
- References: <9211140852.AA11223@PCS.CNU.EDU> <9211150337.AA12188@PCS.CNU.EDU> <9211151638.29@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:14:50 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- <Some article pruning...>
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- In article <9211151638.29@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >In article <9211150337.AA12188@PCS.CNU.EDU> "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet> writes:
- >>
- >
- >>6) A simplification of administration. File permissions are a real big
- >> problem for most users. Perhaps a new file system that would be real
- >> simple, like DOS but with long filenames and extended attributes. The
- >> kernel would still support a standard FS but if you don't need it...
- >
- >Right. Turn UNIX into DOSIX. Bleah!
- >
- >
- >In the Linux and BSD groups, I've seen a lot of new users who want to turn
- >UNIX into MSDOS. I will fight to keep this from happening. I have a decade
- >of experience with UNIX, and think it is the best OS that I ever used. I used
- >to have a PC/XT running MSDOS, and have written diagnostics for dedicated
- >applications running on MSDOS machines to exercise and test commodity hardware
- >in a factory setting. I am about as interested in using DOS as I would be in
- >programming on punched cards.
- >
-
- I agree. Let UNIX and Coherent be what they are. I bought Coherent
- because I wanted to learn more about UNIX. The less UNIX-like it is,
- the less I'd be interested in it.
- Also, as a UNIX newbie, the last* thing I'd want to do is introduce
- another variable by running an OS I have to patch/fix myself. After I
- learn to "drive", then I'll look under the "hood" (i.e. Linux).
-
- - Mike (Reply to: mtarrant@atk.com)
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