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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <id.LBYV.X76@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Dec10.232841.7252@solucor.uucp> <id.89SV.GJ8@ferranti.com> <1992Dec18.014048.26507@Celestial.COM>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:10:39 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1992Dec18.014048.26507@Celestial.COM> bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
- > In <id.89SV.GJ8@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- > :In article <1992Dec10.232841.7252@solucor.uucp> jack@solucor.uucp (Jacques Gelinas) writes:
- > :> >implementation problems that have so far been stumbling blocks in the path
- > :> >to the general acceptance of UNIX, so I expect that it will fail.
-
- > :> What is lacking ?
-
- > :The ability to stick a floppy in a brand new computer, turn it on, and
- > :have it come up running UNIX.
-
- > SCO ODT 2.0 is almost that simple. Stick in a floppy, stick in
- > a tape, answer a few questions about system name, set root
- > passsword, wait for tape to finish loading.
-
- Gotta be able to do it without a tape. Most people don't have them.
-
- I'm talking a *real* UNIX Lite here, not this Univel junk. Something that
- lets you come up and run applications in 6 or 8 floppies, and be able to
- do system checkout on a floppy boot sans hard disk.
-
- This implies that most of the shell scripts used for booting and basic
- administration, all the way up to running X, can't require anything
- you can't fit on a 1.2K floppy. It's OK to have the kernel on a separate
- disk, but only as a last resort.
-
- > :Windows 3.1 can be installed and run by a naive user.
-
- > Not if you want anything other than a minimal PC without any
- > additional hardware or software.
-
- Yes, but no UNIX system I've seen does even that well.
-
- > :> Make UNIXWARE $150 and you will see a different story.
-
- > :Not unless several years worth of veneer are stripped off. Otherwise, why
- > :are people still buying Macs?
-
- > Why did people buy IBM PCs in the first place.
-
- Because IBM told them they could run all their old CP/M software, and they
- believed them. People are more sophisticated now.
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