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From: martin@adpplz.UUCP (Martin Golding)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: POSIX bashing
Message-ID: <681@adpplz.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 91 21:01:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: adpplz.681
References: <3419@unisoft.UUCP> <5980071@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <3446@unisoft.UUCP> <15621@smoke.brl.mil> <70319@brunix.UUCP> <1991Apr2.032733.26365@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <70568@brunix.UUCP> <1991Apr3.123809.29779@athena.mit.edu>
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In <1991Apr3.123809.29779@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

>In article <70568@brunix.UUCP>, cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>|> The ideal solution would be a reasonably-standard, dynamically linkable
>|> input library, so you could link to whatever interface you preferred.

>  Yet another example of Unix doing now what Multics did long ago, and people
>thinking it's a wonderful new innovation.

>  "Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." :-)

Those who learn from history get big bucks for repeating it.


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