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From: wolf@well.UUCP (Dwight Leu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
Message-ID: <4877@well.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jan 88 21:35:35 GMT
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Keywords: dig dis !
Summary: jerry changes his mind on unix

In article <1495@osiris.UUCP>, mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
> From Jan BYTE: (Jerry Pournelle)
> 
> 	"I must say that as I watch the OS/2 story unfold, I do begin to
> wonder: if UNIX is ever made stable enough to be put in ROM, so that you
> don't need a guru to maintain the system, there's less and less reason why
> it won't catch on. I think of little that OS/2 promises that you can't do
> with UNIX; and now that American Management Systems has developed the
> long-mythical user-friendly UNIX shell, who knows ?

	...

I ran into  Jerry at Hackers 3.0 in October, and had some fun discussing his
views on UNIX and OS/2. I started off by mentioning an article I'm
putting together for Microtimes, entitled ""Pournelle's Tyranny",
dealing with the advantages of multi-user software, versus his first
law ("One user, at least one CPU"). It was the first time I've seen him
at a loss for words (for about 60 seconds). Please note that I like and
respect him highly; I just take exception with some of his views.

Anyway, we had a great discussion during the Sunday brunch. And I
was surprised by how open he was to consider the advantages of UNIX.
In fact, he gave me a quote that he said I could use:
	"I've seen OS/2, and I think UNIX is going to win by default!".

So I believe Jerry is slowly coming around to UNIX. I see it as just
a matter of time.

       -dwight-

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