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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: the GNU Manifesto
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 14:57:24 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  2 14:57:24 1985
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In article <184@dmsd.UUCP> bass@dmsd.UUCP (John Bass) writes:

>GNU is likely to get finished just in time to realize that it is not a needed
>tool anymore. I have worked with UNIX since V5/V6 and have watched it grow.
>EVEN in the begining the UNIX OS was JUST ANOTHER OPERATING SYSTEM from the
>Multics, TENEX, XDS940 (Berkeley Timesharing System) mold. UNIX as an OS has
>maybe another few years of life before the hardware outstrips the need for it
>in its current mold (if not already true). The rapid shift to Macintosh/GEM
>type user interfaces in the next few years combined with distributed
>multiprocessor system designs will make new UNIX kernels from AT&T and other
>vendors change radically in design.

I don't think so.  History has demonstrated just the opposite, if anything.
Look at all the systems out there running NOS, EXEC8, VM/TSO, etcetera.  My
guess is that, as long as there are VAXes, there will be UNIX.  I won't argue
one way or the other as to whether re-writing a whole operating system is a
good idea, but improvements upon the existing tools are just as necessary
for the so-called obsolete systems.

Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe