Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!mwilkins From: mwilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: FLAME Concerning Apple's pricing of A/UX 2.0. Message-ID: <7414@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 6 Jun 90 07:36:17 GMT References: <1990Jun1.185845.24189@ox.com> <1990Jun2.003545.12613@portia.Stanford.EDU> <8@genco.uucp> Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711 Lines: 24 In article es2q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Erik Warren Selberg) writes: >uh... no. From just what I've seen at CMU & what's happening in some >places around the world, large-scale distributed computing networks >will most likely become a standard thing in the future -- which means >UNIX for the standard user. Large-scale distributed computing networks, yes. Compatibility with existing protocols, including some popular ones used by UNIX systems, yes. UNIX on the home users' desktop, no. There's just no reason to use UNIX as a basis for a home computer. It's quite obviously meant for a centrally administered system serving multiple users. That doesn't mean I don't like A/UX 2.0, but UNIX will rarely be used by someone who doesn't have access to a local system manager and it will never be standard for a turnkey personal computer system, meaning one aimed at the home market. --Mark Wilkins -- "According to our contract, at precisely midnight of the night of her greatest triumph, the party of the first part, (that's you), agrees to render up her soul, now and forevermore, to the party of the second part. (That's me). Shall we go?"