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- From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
- Subject: Re: Giles' Manual Mania (Was - Re: About the 'F' in RTFM)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.175637.7676@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <1992Aug26.210446.13402@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <QUANSTRO.92Sep2095812@lars.StOlaf.edu> <1992Sep3.162038.28706@newshost.lanl.gov> <7228@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:56:37 GMT
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- In article <7228@charon.cwi.nl>, dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
- |> In article <1992Sep3.162038.28706@newshost.lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
- |> > [...]
- |> > CDC's Scope was *much* easier to use. Being a `vintage' system, it had
- |> > about the same capabilities as UNIX.
- |> Eh? What about the approximately flat file system, the inconsistency
- |> between programs with respect to their argument handling? [...]
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- [... Long list of inconsistencies elided ...]
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- See? About the same level of capabilities. Just as I said.
- Inconsistencies are rampant in *both* systems. Scope was easier
- to learn and use. Both are now *obsolete*. Only one is still
- being promoted.
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- J. Giles
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