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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.religion.computers
Subject: Re: A3000UX competition
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Date: 4 Dec 90 00:05:07 GMT
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In article <36488@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
> Bushwa!  As just ONE example of BSD's obsoletedness that recently caused me
> MUCH grief, let's look at BSD curses vs. *ANY* SysV curses since SVR3.
> Where's the BSD terminfo support, alternate character set, region scrolling,
> line insert/delete, color support,  etc etc etc?

Terminfo support? Where's System V's termcap support? Not an issue.

BSD alternate character set: as, ae. Region scrolling: cr. Line insert:
il. Line delete: dl. There's no color support, but there also aren't two
color terminals in a thousand. And you can pretty much standardize the
name for a new feature by calling up Berkeley and asking for it.

> Kent, it appears to me you haven't studied any recent SysV system,

I don't see any errors or implied errors in what Kent wrote. I see a
nearly complete travesty of the truth in your only example of supposed
BSD failings.

---Dan