Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tikal!hplsla!hpubvwa!auvax!rwa
From: rwa@auvax
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
Message-ID: <484@auvax>
Date: 4 Jan 88 14:19:00 GMT
References: <1495@osiris>
Lines: 18

In article <6952@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
> As quoted from <1495@osiris.UUCP> by mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum):
> +---------------
> | From Jan BYTE: (Jerry Pournelle)
{use your 'p' key if you really want to see this...)
> He also comments on "too big and too slow".  Too big?  Maybe -- if you want
> System V or 4BSD. [... excellent rebuttal to too slow elided here ...]

And as for too big, fooey.  Mass storage is getting cheaper much faster than
even the BSD un*x's are getting bigger.  Jerry is still in love with z80's,
for crying in your beer!  Of course he thinks everyone needs multiple cpu's.
From what I've seen of his articles, if he had spent 1/2 the cash on one
decent machine of the sun/3 (or equivalent, I'm not bigoted (much)) class
as he has on umpteen-thousand tinkertoys, he'd be miles ahead.

Ross Alexander,
Sr Systems Programmer & Bottlewasher @ Athabasca University
alberta!auvax!rwa