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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.132818.703@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:28:18 GMT
- References: <1992Oct28.175009.7021@Celestial.COM> <BwxMKB.5Dp@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <BwxvEx.8Mn@unix.amherst.edu> <Bx577E.AIy@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:
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- >Somewhere in between these poles lies a place where one operating system
- >can be both easy and powerful, backwards compatible and futuristic,
- >graphical and command line driven.
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- >OS/2, WindowsNT, PowerOS, are all looking for that place. Unix should be
- >too. If it doesn't, it will be replaced by something that does.
-
- That's in a few lines what the BYTE article, which started this thread, is all
- about.
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- >1.It should have a more standardized, easy to use GUI (but still flexible)
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- Those already exist: Motif and OPEN LOOK.
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- >2. It should have a powerful command line.
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- Aren't todays shells (e.g. bash) not powerful enough?
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- >3.It should install from floppy as well as CD.
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- Is already there, Solaris, Ultrix, and probably others as well are distributed
- on a CD. Linux and 386BSD will also be distributed on CD (in the future).
-
- >4.It should run, graphically, in less then 8MB of memory.
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- Can be done, as Linux proves. Although I don't think memory is such a big
- issue. The only problem is, IMHO, that most PC's are sold with 1, 2 or at most
- 4M RAM. People often don't like to open the cover and insert a few SIMMs.
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