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From: ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: What should completion look like on Unix?
Message-ID: <2028@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 87 19:15:25 GMT
References: <1971@cup.portal.com> <1169@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <588@kuling.UUCP> <871@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> <476@athos.rutgers.edu> <882@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <882@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> andy@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Charles Hedrick)
writes:
>	[included text]
[1]
>	In other words, TOPS-20 at its worst is like unix....
>
>	[some reasonable information and comments]
[2]
>	Is this another unix tty driver "feature"?  (I knew it dropped
>	characters, is it also this inflexible?) ...
>	[more reasonable TOPS-20 information and observations]
>-andy

Please...I'm neither going to defend Unix, nor attack TOPS-20, or vice
versa.  But I've sat through 8 years of OS/Editor/Language-Wars on the
Net, and this is just the tinder that will start said again. [1] above
is sheer opinion, and can lead to a barrage of articles, if not
commented as a humorous comment.  [2] is either a conscious or
unconscious over-simplification, as well as an opinionated (and, if
the 'inflexible' comment is serious, uninformed) statement; again,
this will simply add fuel to a useless 'my OS really *can* do this!
Better than yours!!' message flood on the net.

Sorry if I'm cranky...but I've the-day-after-Christmas blahs, and
really want to nip this thing in the bud.  The information in the
above article on TOPS-20 is useful and welcome; thank you.
-- 
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