Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!seanf
From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems
Message-ID: <8460@scolex.sco.COM>
Date: 29 Oct 90 01:36:59 GMT
References: <9886@milton.u.washington.edu> <=YN6UN5@xds13.ferranti.com>
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In article <=YN6UN5@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <9886@milton.u.washington.edu> kraig@biostr.biostr.washington.edu (Kraig Eno) writes:
>> can someone tell me why every operating system upgrade in 
>> the history of computing is BOTH bigger AND slower?

Gee, that's strange.  SCO UNIX 3.2v2 is smaller and faster than 3.2.0 (less
buggy, as well, and with more features [some of them actually nice 8-)]).

>> DON'T make every application do everything under the sun.  Do the 
>> essential operation, do it well, and make it efficient!
>Bravo!

I agree.  And don't make your OS do everything, if you can make the
applications do it for you.  Just my opinin, though...

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