Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!gerry
From: gerry@syntron.UUCP (G. Roderick Singleton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: news software speedup
Message-ID: <291@syntron.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 19:02:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: syntron.291
Posted: Thu Mar 31 14:02:17 1988
References: <649@bms-at.UUCP> <10150@ncc.UUCP> <4246@hoptoad.uucp> <10128@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com> <4265@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: gerry@syntron.UUCP (G. Roderick Singleton)
Organization: Syntronics Manufacturing Inc., Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
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In article <4265@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) wrote:
>>                                Obviously having the ulimit (or any other
>> configurable parameter) set to an inappropriate value is a "vendor
>> problem" rather than a "System V bug."
>
>Not if in the default System V, that AT&T supplies to all the vendors,

 [almost whole message deleted]

>wait!  Let's build a whole computer so brain damaged that you can never
>use more than 64K of data at once, even though the machine can have
>megabytes of main memory!  Oh...your hardware has lots of disk and

 [smiley and 2 lines deleted ]

Smiley or not,  you'll have to get ATT to do something else.  IBM has
already created this monster and sold it to an unsuspecting public.
Oh well, ATT can try too :-)

ger

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G. Roderick Singleton, Technical Services Manager
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