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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Is an Apollo a UNIX box?
Message-ID: <1247@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 23:35:31 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 23:35:31 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 14:52:35 EDT
References: <870520222712.854845@HI-MULTICS.ARPA> <1242@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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Summary: i think not

> In article <870520222712.854845@HI-MULTICS.ARPA>, Giebelhaus@HI-MULTICS.ARPA writes:
 > I'm also interested in peoples opinions about whether Apollos are UNIX
 > boxes.  My presonal opinion is that they are just about as UNIX as any
 > other vendor except Berkley or Bell depending on which version of UNIX
 > you mean.
 > 
 > The worst problem the Apollo has is marketing.  When you think of a UNIX
 > workstation, is the Apollo the first thing that comes to mind?  For many
 > people it does not come to mind at all.  Why?
 > 

No Apollo is not a Unix box - 
*for starters look at the kludges with /etc/passwd...
*second - what starts up your Unix shells...
*funny within GMR3D & GMR2D your Unix system calls die...
*Acl? Why don't they map *correctly* into Unix
 protections.  Fix_cache and flush_cache exist to fix
 mappings between acls and unix permissions remember.
*why do certain Unix ports take literally forever.  Go
 ask alis (sic ... i really meant Alice).
*i am sure that i will believe that Apollo is a Unix box
 when i see the required amount of Apollo ads (telling me
 'i am so a Unix box')