Xref: utzoo news.misc:1561 news.sysadmin:765 news.groups:4663 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!vanvleck!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!mejac!decwrl!net.rarebit From: net.rarebit@cs.perdue.edu Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin,news.groups Subject: Official Backbone Announcement: O.S. upgrade Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 88 02:08:57 GMT Sender: heiby@falkor.UUCP Lines: 22 In article net.rarebit writes: >Before leaving for USENIX, the backbone managed to get together on >another decision (things are already running much smoother now that >there is an official backbone announcer). So, please take note: > > Recent attempts to merge BSD with SystemV into somekind of > homogenized ``standard'' UNIX have lead the backbone to > realize that UNIX as an interesting operating system is now > for all intents and purposes dead. Upon advisement from > the official backbone mail leaker, we have decided to replace > UNIX with HYPERCARD. A new release of the news software (version > D or VD for short) will be distributed soon that runs under > HYPERCARD. All sysadmins are requested to upgrade their systems > from UNIX to HYPERCARD to maintain the connectivity of the net. > To encourage this move, a set of rmgroup messages to delete > the comp.unix.* groups will be issued shortly. The HYPERCARD > interface is so user-friendly that we do not anticipate needing > to create a comp.hypercard.* hierachy. Thank you for your help. > >Together for a better net, > >----------------------- SPEAKER TO THE NET ---------------------------- This is a clear and damnable forgery. As the official speaker to the net, this forger is beneath my contempt. Any attempt to replace UNIX will clearly result in disaster. It may have it's problems, but at USENIX we are going to dicuss what we think will eventually solve these problems. Not the least of these problems is that nobody can get UNIX to work with printers. We are going to rewrite UNIX in PostScript. Speaking for the Welsh rabbits of the net-- ------------------------ SPEAKER TO THE NET ----------------------------