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Subject: Re: A different View of the value of OS/2 - it's better than UNIX
Message-ID: <13211@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 10:45:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: bu-cs.13211
Posted: Sun Sep 20 10:45:35 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 20:52:18 EDT
References: <494@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <224@trwrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bucsb.bu.edu (Jim "Jack" Frost)
Organization: Boston University ACM
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Keywords: market acceptance of UNIX lacking

In article <224@trwrc.UUCP> agnew@trwrc.UUCP (R.A. Agnew) writes:
>>benefits.  (The marketplace isn't a few engineers here and there, but the
>>millions and millions of white collar workers who drive cars with automatic
>>transmissions and never built a Heathkit in their lives and use cameras with
>>auto-exposure and automatic flash.)
>>
>I couldn't agree more! Would all of you millions of white collar workers
>go off and play with your 123 and OS-2 and leave Unix where it belongs.
>After all, it was written by engineers, for engineers. (Note the 
>bessel and error functions in the C run time library and the plot
>and graph routines ). Meanwhile, I'll design your next user friendly
>PC for you. I'll make sure not to make it too hard to use. 

What bessel and error functions in the C run time library?  Having a
pretty good notion of the history of C/UNIX, I think you're confused.
First, are Kernigan/Ritchie engineers?  Perhaps software engineers.
Second, each C library has the routines supplied by the writer.  The
libraries are not standard even among UNIX's, much less among non-UNIX
machines.  I also find it unlikely that many C's have plot functions
since that is quite hardware-dependant!

Sorry, flame that's somewhat off the subject.

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