Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: AMIGA Message-ID: Date: 5 May 91 17:42:13 GMT References: <4402@mindlink.UUCP> <1991Jan11.225935.26086@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991May5.125041.24784@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of 5 May 91 12:50:41 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <1991May5.125041.24784@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > hahahhahahah. The monitor costs twice that amount. Try pricing color > monitors from Sony, etc. and see how much they cost. Maybe Jobs > should let us connect the NeXT to a TV? Sounds like an excellent idea to me. When TV's go high definition maybe. > 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 Most people claim that SPARCs are great. You think Amiga owners are adament! 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. Previously I'd hated working on the older System III boxes at work, but after digging around configuring those Sparcs to our network they're almost fun. The System V idbuild stuff is as good as I've seen on any system, and better than the mess most PC users have to put up with. And then there's Sendmail. I thought MMDF was tough to configure. I tore it out and replaced it with smail 2.5. We use zmailer on the computer science machines. The claim is Sendmail is broken beyond repair. -Mike