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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Stupid man pages
Message-ID: <13088@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Jun 90 07:07:24 GMT
References: <1990Apr22.083636.9250@lsuc.on.ca> <8591@goofy.Apple.COM> <1990Jun8.162656.14993@nbc1.ge.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Jun8.162656.14993@nbc1.ge.com> scott@nbc1.UUCP (Scott Barman) writes:
>I apologize to those not interested in a flame against Sun, but as a
>user (and shareholder) I am very annoyed at these seemingly minor
>changes that build up into one big horror!!!

While I too am annoyed by some of these changes (mostly by the requirement
for /usr to be mounted to do anything even in single-user mode), Sun did
not make the changes for the user or the shareholder; they were made for
the system administrator and OS designer.  The main considerations were
explained in the SunOS 4.0 documentation, which you should read and
understand before complaining further.  (Basically, the design is
constrained by the properties of what my officemate calls the "dickless
workstation" environment; filesystems are partitioned functionally based
on whether they are read-only system support vs. read-write user files,
architecture-dependent vs. architecture-independent, workstation-specific
vs. shared, etc.)