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From: julian@riacs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II (really SE: A letdown?)
Message-ID: <409@hydra.riacs.edu>
Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 22:44:13 EST
Article-I.D.: hydra.409
Posted: Mon Mar 16 22:44:13 1987
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Reply-To: julian@hydra.riacs.edu.UUCP (Julian E. Gomez)
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In article <2857@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes:
> ...
> What exactly does this UNIX bigotry mean?  As someone who has used
> both 4.2/4.3 and System V, and generally prefers 4.x, I still get
> curious when someone proclaims one to be much better than the other.
> 
> System V has a better organized and more rational library.
> BSD's only advantages are in networking, but if you're not using
> them, what does it matter.
> ...

BSD also has jobs control, which is an immense help when dealing with a
line oriented operating system such as UNIX.  If you're lucky enough to
be running on a Sun or an ISI or something like that, then sure, you
can start up another window, aka login session. But that 680x0 does get
tired after a while. Putting a job in background and getting your shell
back doesn't take as many resources.  Not to mention putting a job in
background AFTER you've hit CR.  "SYS V with BSD enhancements" usually
means things like "vi" and "csh" but not jobs control, which I find of
greater utility than something like getopt().

-- 
"If Chaos himself sat umpire, what better could he do?"

	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
	julian@riacs.edu || {...decvax!}ames!riacs!julian