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From: chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Unix vs. OS/2 (was RE: Pournelle on Unix)
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Date: 8 Jan 88 02:51:54 GMT
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In article <11156@brl-adm.ARPA> GUTHERY%ASC%sdr.slb.com@RELAY.CS.NET (guthery%asc@sdr.slb.com) writes:
>3) Kernel hacking is not research.  A Unix wizard who doesn't know what
>SIGOPS is loses five hit points.  Do the wizards sense extinction?

I neither claim to be a kernel hacker or a Unix wizard (expert maybe, but
I'm not a wizard yet).  The only SIGOPS I know of is ACM's Special Interest
Group on Operating Systems; if that's what you're referring to, I still don't
understand your cryptic comment about "SIGOPS closing its doors".


-Brent
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