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- From: steve@endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov (Steve Rezsutek)
- Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
- In-Reply-To: rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov's message of Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13: 41:00 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:13:56 GMT
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- rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler) writes:
-
- Its's really nice to site on a VMS machine and
- edit node::file
-
- where "node" doesn't have an editor you like.
-
- Equally nice is sitting on an Apollo DomainOS node:
-
- my-fav-editor //some-other-node/some-file
-
- Of course, if you're ON the node that doesn't have the editor
- you want, then what? On Domain, it's easy...
-
- //node-with-real-software/local/bin/my-fav-editor some-file
-
- Of course, this can all be hidden from the mortals quite nicely
- (ln -s //other-node/local/bin /usr/local/bin), and in reality,
- I rarely notice that I'm on one node and not another, unless
- one is down, or I happen to be on the 400s which is faster than
- the DN4000's we have.
-
- So, anyone with dates handy care to inform us whether Domain's
- (Aegis' actually) "integrated networking" [to use the phrase]
- came before or after the others?
-
- [Personally, I think it isn't so important who was first, but
- rather who did it "right" and when the rest will catch up.
- IMHO, Domain has a much higher rightness coefficeient that
- either UNIX or VMS.]
-
- "UNIX? Yeah, it's a cute little OS, but I'll take Domain over
- it, or VMS, any ol' day..."
-
- Steve
-
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- Steven Rezsutek steve@endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Nyma / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
- Greenbelt MD 301 286 7014
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