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- From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1452@pacsoft.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 17:17:19 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu> <1992Nov9.215734.10043@prl.dec.com>
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- Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
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- In an article, boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
- >The real problem, as Rob has so eloquently put it:
- >
- > ``Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.''
-
- I find it amazing that people, apparently in pursuit of some small amount of
- enjoyment, spend their time proclaiming the death of UNIX. This sort of thing
- is really beginning to take on the flavor of the apocalyptic doomsayers (you
- know the type ... they run about the streets wearing dirty plaid suits bellowing
- "Repent Now, For the End is Near!").
-
- I have heard UNIX to be proclaimed dead and buried for years now. I have no
- doubt that there are those who would *like* UNIX to be dead, but desire alone
- does not make a thing so. Microsoft is a good case in point, I suppose.
-
- So, Boyd, if UNIX really is dead, where is the funeral? I would so enjoy
- paying my last respects ...
-
- Oh, and by the way, I do assume then that you are using VMS, DOS, or perhaps a
- beta version of Windows NT? You wouldn't be caught *dead* using UNIX, am I
- right? :-)
-
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- Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
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