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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Ignorance speaks loudest (was:Computers for users not programmers)
Message-ID: <3175@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 4 Feb 91 19:08:32 GMT
References: <1652@hpwala.wal.hp.com> <409@bria> <13252@lanl.gov> <1991Feb4.154607.8606@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <1991Feb4.154607.8606@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:

| I'll try to explain. The most general method  means that you call a system 
| subroutine with a pointer parameter to a buffer, and a file descriptor of some
| sort, and a size, and a function pointer to a "completion routine".
| 
| YOUR PROGRAM CONTINUES RUNNING. IT DOES NOT BLOCK.

| [ stuff ]

| WHEN THE BUFFER GETS FILLED THE COMPLETION ROUTINE GETS CALLED.

  This stuff seems to be in V.4 and venix, and perhaps HP-UX. JG is
complaining about the things UNIX doesn't do, which it wasn't intended
to do. He probably complains that his bicycle doesn't squeeze oranges or
fry fish, too.

  Instead of trying to explain that UNIX can do some of these things,
tell him he doesn't understand the use of UNIX. He won't be satisfied
with an orange squeezing frying pan on his bike, and he'll keep dreaming
up other things UNIX isn't trying to do as long as people keep accepting
these bizarre ideas as goals of UNIX.

  JG has been asked several time to take this to alt.religion.computers,
but has continued to post his stuff here. He does not understand the
uses of UNIX, hardware, software, or this group.

  This group is for computer architecture, alt.religion.computers is for
why your computer, or some mythical computer, or some real computer
which doesn't do what you think it does, is better than some other
computer. We don't discuss that here! Go away!
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
  "I'll come home in one of two ways, the big parade or in a body bag.
   I prefer the former but I'll take the latter" -Sgt Marco Rodrigez