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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: SCO support (was: How to replace disk driver in SCO Unix ?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.143510.22241@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 14:35:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep05.033137.1364@ksmith.uucp>, keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
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- | If you can cook eggs & bacon on it is it a skillet or a frying pan? Or
- | who gives a rats ass what you call it, as long as it runs your darn
- | program. I run SVR(whatever runs my finking application). If I need long
- | filenames and symlinks either will do. As for "standards" well. . .
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- If you run in a vacuum, that's a fine way to go. Some of us want to be
- able to move applications between platforms to put the load where the
- horsepower is. If I have to run one app I consider the machine on which
- it runs a part of the app. If I want a general purpose machine I want to
- run all my apps on it, and that means it better look like a standard
- system. To me the standards are Xenix, V.3, and V.4 (on Intel CPUs), and
- add BSD, SunOS and Ultrix for general portability.
-
- Even if I have configurable software, I don't expect to have to tell
- it I have BSD sockets, short filenames but symbolic links, BSD and V.3
- semiphores, V7 surses in termcap but V.3 in termio, etc. When you run
- things like that into config programs you find the little messages left
- by the suthors, like "you must be kidding," or "this is a test, not a
- real computer, right?"
-
- A person with one computer and user can run anything they want, but
- there are lots of other user profiles out here, and that's where a
- standard "my o/s looks like your o/s" is better. Not that I don't use
- the features in the o/s, but I try not to become dependent on them.
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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