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- From: gordie@kaleida.com (Gordie Freedman)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Real UNIX? (Was Re: Comparison or Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC ...)
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 21:51:49 GMT
- Organization: Happy hacker bait and tackle shop
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- In article u600WBO40k2xV@andrew.cmu.edu, Sean McLinden <sean+@andrew.cmu.edu> () writes:
- >>I don't reagard it a "real" UNIX, then again I wouldn't buy a "real" UNIX,
- >>1970s software technology is not something I would want to buy today.
- >
- >[And here I was beginning to like you because you commented, correctly, that
- >BSD was still in demand. Oh well.]
- >
- >Statements like the above excerpt I would expect from Bill Gates but not from
- >a real programmer. To say that you wouldn't use Unix because it is 1970s
- >technology is a bit like saying you wouldn't speak French (or English or...)
- >because it is centuries old. What we call Unix, today, is hardly anything
- >like what came out of AT&T Bell Labs in the early days and is even a long
- >way from early System V and BSD 4.2 of a few years (well, maybe more than
-
- I think that is what the original poster meant ... It seems to me he was saying
- "real" UNIX is one of those early incarnations, as opposed to a more modern
- UNIX. I don't remember whether he implied he would buy a "modern" UNIX though ...
-
- Personally, I wouldn't speak English like they did centuries ago, but I do speak
- it in the current dialect (roughly speaking). I use a modern UNIX but if a SUN or
- a NeXT came with a "real" UNIX from the '70s they might have a bit of a problem
- selling them.
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-
- Gordie Freedman
- gordie@kaleida.com
-
- These are not even real opinions so don't go blaming Kaleida for them
-