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From: amos@SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL (amos shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX vs. the world (again) (was: Compilation listing from Sun ...)
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Date: 21 Jun 91 07:55:58 GMT
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[Quoted from the referenced article by sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)]
>In article <25849@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>>I have absolutely _NO_ experience with standalone UNIX boxes.
>
>Therefore you are not equipped to judge them.  So shut up about them.
>

We've already been through this very argument, with the same participants, in
other groups.  The conclusion seems to be that:
- Jim Giles doesn't like buses; they're big, noisy, smelly, and almost
 impossible to park;
- Jim Giles has never had any need to drive a bus, doesn't know how
 to drive one, nor wishes to learn;
- Therefore, Jim Giles believes nobody should ever make, drive, or ride in
 a bus.

More to the point: UNIX is far from perfect, and I'll gladly replace it
with anything else that's as versatile, cheap, and - most important - as
easy to port to any new architecture.

-- 
	Amos Shapir		amos@cs.huji.ac.il
The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Dept. of Comp. Science.
Tel. +972 2 585138 GEO: 35 11 46 E / 31 46 21 N