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- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 07:17:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov06.071731.947@Celestial.COM>
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- In <1382@netxcom.netx.com> jwc@netx.com (Jeffrey W. Comer) writes:
-
- :Having worked my way up the ranks from MVS to VM and then DOS, with side
- :trips into VAX and NOS, and finally *NIX, I must say UNIX beats them all
- :hands down. No other OS has the flexibilty and power the others do. I'll
- :take three boxes running UNIX over a whole roomfull of IBM mainframes any
- :day. I am convinced JCL was the result of a freshman prank gone awry. And
- :IEFBR14? Come on, this must be somebody's idea of a joke!
-
- No joke! IBM's software was all designed to sell more hardware.
- Every time a job fails because of bad JCL, it's more computer
- time (hardware sales) for IBM. I remember how pissed everyone
- was when I was at Bendix Radio and our G-20 was being replaced by
- two 360/50s. A FORTRAN job that would take less than a minute on
- the G-20 would take 25 minutes on the IBM. The FORTRAN
- equivalent of a 'Hello World' program would require 50 cards of
- JCL to compile it, and probably another 50 to execute the sucker.
-
- :And hey! Don't knock DOS! It may be a wimpy little thing in the corner, but
- :it got the micro revolution started, and I wager alot of us are employed
- :today thanks to this boon. DOS has its problems too, and if *I* had any say
- :in its design, it would look a lot better, but remember DOS was originally
- :designed to fit onto and operate from a SINGLE 360K floppy! Which versions
- :of UNIX can make that claim?
-
- But then so could TRS-DOS, and it had on-line help!
-
- Bill
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