Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!nstar!inland!jkelly From: jkelly@inland.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Compilation listing from Sun F77READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP Message-ID: <954.285734d7@inland.com> Date: 13 Jun 91 09:03:19 GMT References: <1991Jun10.234931.5147@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Jun11.100327.2529@ariel.unm.edu> Organization: Inland Steel Research Labs; East Chicago, IN Lines: 14 My experience of working with CTSS has got to have been one of the worst nightmares of my computing carear. I'll take UNIX anyday. From a my perspective and not being familiar with the hardware requirements, I found CTSS to be horrendously inefficient and totally obscure. However, it had the nice feature of being able to abort and restart large number crunching jobs. I still haven't found a machine that is fast enough to make the concept of a lot of small utilities as opposed to one extra large utility obsolete. Besides, it gives you just one enviroment (the shell) to learn, instead of having to learn a separate enviroment for each big utility that you want to use. But I can see how other people might not be comfortable with that.