Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!nuchat!moray!siswat!buck From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: AIX 3 kernel [was: Re: IBM X implementation [ was: Re: grep ]] Message-ID: <518@siswat.UUCP> Date: 19 Mar 90 07:14:59 GMT References: <1990Mar6.050418.7085@edm.uucp> <1736@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> <823@dino.cs.iastate.edu> Organization: Photon Graphics, Houston Lines: 13 In article <823@dino.cs.iastate.edu>, hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes: > Hmmm, how novel...and how many years have these things been in VMS? > > Oh, sorry I forgot we're not supposed to use the V-word, And how many architectures does VMS run on? Oh, sorry. I forgot we're not supposed to notice that putting features in a portable operating system is much harder than to hack things in to a particular machine. -- A. Lester Buck buck@siswat.lonestar.org ...!texbell!moray!siswat!buck