Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict
From: erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
Message-ID: <157@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 14:08:39 GMT
References: <1495@osiris.UUCP> <6952@ncoast.UUCP>
Organization: flatline in Houston(Montrose, really), Tx.
Lines: 25
Summary: OS9 is multitask *AND* rom-able

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)
| | 
| | 	"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 ?
| +---------------
Ok, so I'll flame about the wrong thing on the wrong board. =:->
OS9, from Microware, is multi-tasking, ROM-able, and very, very, usable.
There have been many posts about 680x0 based OS9 on usenet, I'm surprised
it hasn't been brought up.
I'd rather have an OS9 based 68020/881 box, with 5 terminals, than our
5PC-AT LAN at work.  As it is now, there are three of us using the LAN
and we fight over the 2 extra terminals.  It takes 2 PC-s to recompile
the Soft.Arch. and your code at the same time! :->
Whiney Flame Off.
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