Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: UNIX vs. the world (again) (was: Compilation listing from Sun ...) Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 91 14:35:51 GMT References: <1991Jun15.143436.5574@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <25791@lanl.gov> <1991Jun16.184815.17898@kithrup.COM> <25855@lanl.gov> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 In article <25855@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes: > We'd all be better off now if the schools had mostly decided to develop > their own systems peicemeal They mostly did, well into the '80s. SAIL and ITS, for example. Berkeley did their own variant of NOS for the Cyber series. Home grown operating systems were a dime a dozen. UNIX *replaced* these, because it was easier to maintain and, more importantly, teach. > One of the recognized pitfalls of designing things for > human use is the problem of standardizing to soon.* That's what happened > with operating systems. Yep. That's why we're stuck with IBM-PCs and MS-DOS. -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"