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- From: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Subject: Re: Need to convince boss 486's are *not* w
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.144520.15977@qb.rhein-main.de>
- Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de
- References: <hdq3sqg@rpi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:45:20 GMT
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- In article <hdq3sqg@rpi.edu> johnsd2@vccnw07.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel Norman
- Johnson) writes:
- [lots unqualified of NeXT-bashing deleted]
- > >It doesn't need the tiff. If all else fails, you hold down two keys
- > >and get into the ROM monitor. This is all in the manual. I would
- > >guess that his problems were not related to changing the login tiff
- > >at all. I would guess they were playing around as root.
- >
- > That would be fine IF it knew by itself that if it cant
- > do it the usual way, it should use this "ROM Monitor"
- > (and the monitor wasn't rediculously obscure. A text
- > screen asking for userid and password would be ok.
-
- Why don't you go back to your organisation (Sun Microsystems as your
- Organisation line says - very revealing) and try to implement even a
- tenth of what you demand from an OS in your own product, Solaris?
- A Sun is always as easy (or hard) to break as a NeXT, only it's never
- so easy to use and administer.
-
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@qb.rhein-main.de), NeXTmail welcome
-
- Looks good on the outside, but -
- intel inside
-