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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.150828.24440@prl.dec.com>
- Sender: news@prl.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: prl313.prl.dec.com
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory
- References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu> <1992Nov9.215734.10043@prl.dec.com> <1452@pacsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:08:28 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1452@pacsoft.com>, mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik) writes:
- >
- > 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? :-)
- >
-
- Well I'm doing my best to avoid it. I'm using Byron's rc and the Plan 9
- editor sam (and have done so for more than a year). Lately we have short
- term Plan 9 style backups:
-
- prl313 dump; cd 9211/10/udir/boyd/work/ftpnfs
- prl313 ftpnfs; ls -ltr
- total 16
- -rw-r--r-- 1 boyd 766 Nov 9 14:01 README
- -rw-r--r-- 1 boyd 1940 Nov 9 19:31 Makefile
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 boyd 7190 Nov 9 23:51 ftpnfs.1
- drwxrwxr-x 3 boyd 512 Nov 10 03:49 src
- drwxrwxr-x 2 boyd 512 Nov 10 03:49 doc
- drwxrwxr-x 2 boyd 512 Nov 10 03:49 test
- drwxrwxr-x 2 boyd 512 Nov 10 03:54 mips
- drwxrwxr-x 2 boyd 512 Nov 10 03:54 vax
-
- So there's (some) of the work I did a day or so ago.
-
- Hell, I've even been hacking VMS:
-
- $ start/queue/on=prlvms:: eve
-
-
- Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
-
- ``Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.'' -- Rob Pike
-