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From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: obsolete Sequent software
Message-ID: <6055@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 22 Feb 91 14:35:52 GMT
References: <1991Feb16.000101.4149@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <536@coatimundi.cs.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD
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In comp.sys.sequent, gmt@cs.arizona.edu (Gregg Townsend) writes:
>I have to second R. B. Jim's comments about Sequent software.  It's pitiful.

I'm real tired of seeing this stuff.  I happen to thing that Sequent
has done a great job on software.  I agree, it's not leading edge stuff,
but it works, and it provides all the features I need.

>I have been passing on these complaints to everyone who asks how we like our
>Sequent.  Rock-solid hardware, pathetic software.

I word it this way:
	   Rock-solid hardware, Rock-solid software.

Sun offers leading edge software, and they have to pay the price
for doing that.  Every few months I see another article like this:

In comp.security.announce, cert-advisory-request@CERT.SEI.CMU.EDU writes:
>
>CA-91:01                       CERT Advisory
>                             February 21,  1991
>                        SunOS /bin/mail Vulnerability

>Sun Bug ID  : 1047340
>Synopsis    : /bin/mail can be caused to invoke a root shell if given the
>              (im)proper arguments.

Someone should write a song: "50 ways to be root on a Sun".

I've never seen a single bug report like this about DYNIX.

DYNIX does have some bugs, and so does the Sequent hardware, but it's
the best integration of hardware and software that I've seen in a
long time.

Curt Welch
curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil
Code 3531
David Taylor Research Center (A Navy Lab)
Bethesda, MD
(301) 227-1428


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