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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ^3 What ....... Dell UNIX V.4
Message-ID: <2436@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 04:00:32 GMT
References: <1990Nov15.225728.16481@cbnewsm.att.com> <1990Nov17.225432.17394@pegasus.com> <2330@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Nov21.232102.26005@pegasus.com> <2361@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Nov26.162757.15948@eci386.uucp>
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In article <1990Nov26.162757.15948@eci386.uucp> woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) writes:

| (Mind you, I too believe that SysVr4.0 is probably the best ever first
| release of an OS from AT&T.)

  I'll agree with that, and I was surprised. I didn't expect that kind
of reliability at this stage. Even the alpha releases didn't crash, with
all the things which didn't work.

  The question is: is this the best 1st release of any multitasking
(general purpose) o/s ever by anyone? I have seen new major releases
of VMS and IBM systems, GCOS (when it was still sold by GE), etc, and I
don't recall any of them being so solid in terms of the kernel not going down.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me