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Subject: Re: Source Code Control
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Date: 31 Jul 89 16:30:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!render    Jul 31 11:30:00 1989


Just to clarify an earlier message, I like UNIX.  I use it all the time.  My 
statement about it lacking record I/O was intended to show that it is not the 
be-all and end-all of operating systems and programming environments.  It was 
a poorly chosen example because, as people have pointed out, record I/O is not 
that big a deal.  Still, there are various high-level features which I think 
should be implemented in a layer below that of the user (mostly for the sake of
performance).  UNIX is admirable for the number of extraneous things it doesn't
put in the kernel, but there are things that I wished it had there.

hal.