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From: stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
Message-ID: <1991May8.124648.17903@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 12:46:48 GMT
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In article <3330.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
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>    Does OS/2 multitask as nicely as Unix, have all those crontab and
>    uucp facilities, the user/group/world file protection stuff, etc?

crontab and uucp are just programs; you can add them to almost any system.
crontab is tough to add to MS-DOS, but there are timed execution programs
out there.  UUCP is slightly easier (uupc is pretty good).  If these things
can be added to DOS, they can surely be added to OS/2.  Why expect them to
be built in?

WRT file protection, wouldn't user/group/world make more sense on a
multiuser machine?  At last count, OS/2 is a single-user, multitasking OS.
Besides, I'd rather have an ACL (ala DomainOS) than the simplistic UNIX
protection scheme.  Much more useful.

Steve Wootton
stevew@ecn.purdue.edu
stevew@pur-ee.uucp
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