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From: boyd@basser.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Unix vs. OS/2 (was RE: Pournelle on Unix)
Keywords: enough is enough
Message-ID: <1176@basser.oz>
Date: 15 Jan 88 00:20:43 GMT
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Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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All this mindless blathering about OS/2 v UNIX sparked by Mr Pournelle.
I'd hardly call him an authority on operating system design.  From where
I stand all I see is this guy with a doctorate in psych who writes sci fi.

As for his ravings in Byte, I'd say they're primarily generated by the totally
mindnumbing brain-damage of the micro world.  Editor Y looses its mind over
program X's file format.  It may be entertaining, but its certainly not
worth worrying about.  ``I learnt my computer science from hacking out
text on WordStar'' -- the mind boggles.

As for OS/2.  You want a software turd?  Get Big Blue & Microsoft into gear
and choose a micro with a brain-damaged architecture and THEN try for
backwards (upwards) compatibility.  I can't wait.

Personally I'm for a new software foundation...

	NNU - NFS's not UNIX

But for the moment, it's time for another Valium...



Boyd Roberts			boyd@basser.oz

``When the going gets wierd, the wierd turn pro...''