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- From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.163125.10898@qb.rhein-main.de>
- Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
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- References: <C0K4HJ.AEo@dscomsa.desy.de>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 16:31:25 GMT
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- In article <C0K4HJ.AEo@dscomsa.desy.de> hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill
- Hallam-Baker) writes:
- > In article <28164@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, torek@horse.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek)
- writes:
- [stuff deleted]
- > |>Some OSes provide an enormous collection of `standard
- > |>interpretations', and some provide only a few. The VMS people insist
- > |>that it is better to have 16 built-in record formats; the UNIX people
- > |>insist that it is better to have none.
- > |>
- > |>Both are right, both are wrong; neither way is `better'.
- >
- > Not true. UNIX was written in a great hurry and file type was something they
- > didn't want to bother with. To cover their tracks Thompson et al created a
- huge
- > wadge of waffle pretending that it was a deliberate optimization.
-
- Sorry to break in, but can I cross-post this to rec.humor.funny?
- I'm sure I'll get accepted :-)
-
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- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@qb.rhein-main.de), NeXTmail welcome
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- intel inside
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