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From: stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <1991May5.160725.4509@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 5 May 91 16:07:25 GMT
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In article <1991May5.125041.24784@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <lpbG-s+=1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>> Screw SYSVR4.  Why is it better than BSD and Mach, anyway?
>
>I can't speak ofr SysV R4, but I'm quite familiar with the ugly bits of
>V7, System III, System V, and BSD. I must say that SVR3.2 has fewer ugly bits
>than any of the others. We just got some Sparcstations in at work, and
>doing system admin on them was pure agony. It was like Jobs had taken all
>the ugly stuff in V7 and made it bigger, with no attempt to help make the
>job of the guy administering it easier.

Steve Jobs is responsible for Sun's software?!  Wow, I'll bet Bill Joy is
pissed about that.

Steve Wootton
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