Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!qmw-cs!liam From: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Cave Men and Dinosaurs Keywords: archaic Message-ID: <3103@redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: 27 May 91 18:48:37 GMT References: Sender: usenet@cs.qmw.ac.uk Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: whitesand.dcs.qmw.ac.uk In numb@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matt Newman) writes: >I'm getting more and more fed up of trying to bring software from usenet >up on our A/UX machines. I think he's complaining about "mush" amongst other things. We don't run our A/UX machines in anything like a standard configuration, we don't use the Apple C compilers, we are mostly interested in language systems which do tend to get a bit machine specific, COFF files are something of a mystery to "Suns and VAXes" code.... We also have obselete systems to cooperate with, for example a Sequent Balance which doesn't believe in lockd. >We have ~172 machines running A/UX 2.0. Actually it is only about 110, but we'll get the other 40+ eventually. 2.0.1 when we get the CD (which will presumably not happen until after I've ordered the CD). >Personally A/UX 1.1.1 was better :-) It wasn't significantly different for the kinds of things Matt is complaining about. On a more positive note, ask yourself which manufacturer who has released an operating system upgrade in the last 6 months has actually cleaned up their include files for ANSI C? Not SunOS 4.1.1B. Yes, it's A/UX 2.0.1. Will we be seeing a similar tirade on comp.sys.sun - they aren't planning to ship SVR4 anytime soon... -- William Roberts Internet: liam@dcs.qmw.ac.uk Queen Mary & Westfield College UUCP: liam@qmw-dcs.UUCP Mile End Road AppleLink: UK0087 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Tel: +44 71-975 5234 (Fax: +44 81-980 6533)