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From: ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Ksh availability?
Message-ID: <1781@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 02:20:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 02:20:12 1987
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Reply-To: ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat)
Organization: Analysts International Corp.
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Summary: Oh, for cryin' out loud...

>Also, on
>Monday (you know, the day the market crashed) AT&T and Sun announced
>their plans for a unified edition of unix.  Apparantly SUN unix is
>going to be THE standard soon.

Uh...it could easily be said that AT&T Unis is going to be THE
standard, after eating Sun for a snack.  Come on, people, grow
up--you're comparing systems with two different goals and purposes.
I refuse to get involved, even though I'm finishing up a series of
benchmarks and evaluations that ran the gamut from Sun workstations,
3B2 systems, the IBM PC/RT, and the Vax workstation, among others.  If
you don't have a specific application to provide parameters for your evaluation
criteria, you're not discussing relative merit--you're indulging in
religion.  As in the kind of religious polemic to which this "Sun-vs-AT&T"
debate has degenerated.  Why don't you put this one where these types
of arguments belong, along with the "Emacs vs Vi" and "Unix vs VMS"--
net.religion, because it sure isn't rational comparison, and nobody
whose articles I've read is going to be convinced by the other
side...
-- 
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