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- From: tim@computer.bri.hp.com (Tim Phipps)
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- Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
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- Date: 18 Dec 1992 17:16:17 GMT
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- Phill Hallam-Baker (hallam@zeus02.desy.de) wrote:
- : 1) Online manual still designed with aim of minimizing disk space rather than
- : providing information.
- Not if your sys-admin runs catman 8-)
-
- : 2) No help facility.
- Since I read this in comp.sys.hp try vuehelp or the help button in a Motif
- window.
-
- : 3) No standardized user firendly shell.
- Got me there, I don't recall Posix doing a freindly shell standard.
-
- : 4) Command qualifiers hard coded into applications making multilanguage
- : customization impossible.
- Since when is "ps -dfla" or "cpio -paduvmx" language dependent?
-
- : 5) Requires expensive expert to have a chance of any security.
- Security is expensive. It starts with physical security ie big blokes
- who don't smile, then you can have an expensive OS with good security or
- Unix with an expensive security guru or DOS and take the disk home.
-
- : 6) File system limited to sequential file, forcing applications to create their
- : own file system on top of the UNIX one, thus preventing any standardization or
- : application independent optimization.
- (Snore) Try "man fseek".
-
- : |> Like most modern languages, Unix has survived because it is
- : |>...
- : I disagree. It passed it's sell by date years ago.
- So have I.
-
- Phippo the Hippo.
-