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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: '386 Unix Wars
Keywords: sco unix interactive wars
Message-ID: <51823@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 27 Dec 90 09:09:32 GMT
References: <276d312d-8aecomp.unix.i386@point.UUCP> <33791527@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <51537@bigtex.cactus.org> <355@metran.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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In <355@metran.UUCP>, jay@metran.UUCP (Jay Ts) wrote:

> And it won't markedly improve the functioning of their existing
> software, either.

| Well, what about job control, BSD-style line editing (I'm not sure
| what BSD calls this), long file names, etc?  Something in there seems
| useful.

> Job control, line editing?  Do you think that office workers use the shell?
> Mostly, they are entering data and making menu selections.

Sounds like their existing software is Mess-DOS.

> Long file names are a noticeable improvement.  Well, maybe.  Just
> offhand, I don't remember seeing any truncated filenames in users'
> home directories.  Not many, anyway.

Even Mess-DOS has line editing.

The only thing about SysVr4 an "office worker" is likely to really
notice is that TCP/IP and NFS work much better than SysVr3, and then
only if they're running over NFS or something.  The big win for SysVr4
is for the programmer.
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