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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: <3180@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 91 16:25:08 GMT
References: <1991Feb4.210853.22139@odin.corp.sgi.com> <13754@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <13754@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:

| Not _everyone_ uses the kind of disks and controllers you use.  Yet,
| _everyone_ is being encouraged (sometimes forced) to use UNIX. The
| NSF won't fund non-UNIX software anymore, even though they'd often
| get better code if UNIX was _not_ used.  People who are NSF funded
| can't choose the _best_ system for their needs - they must choose
| UNIX.

  UNIX isn't the best solution, it's the only solution. Or is there
another o/s which runs on multiple hardware and vendor platforms? NFS
has a requirement to be able to move software to other platforms, and I
don't see any competition. The golden rule: "he who has the gold,
rules." If NFS pays for it they get their needs satisfied first.
-- 
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