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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Job Control in POSIX compatible Minix ?
Message-ID: <3595@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 7 Oct 89 11:17:17 GMT
References: <5490006@eecs.nwu.edu> <3546@ast.cs.vu.nl> <3555@solo2.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <3555@solo2.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>I strongly disagree [with the statement that job control is weird]

On no.  Another religious war.  I prefer the PDP-11 MMU actually.

To avoid an endless discussion, let me make a tactical retreat, like Galileo
did.  Job control is wonderful.  It is the greatest invention since the
binary number system.  Faster than a speeding macro.  More powerful than
a subroutine call.  The ultimate in elegance.

Nevertheless, I still won't touch it with a barge pole due to the enormous
complexity of implementation required by the POSIX standard.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs [with the statement that job control is weird]