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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: motives for AT&T, etc (was re: att & osf)
Keywords: att & osf
Message-ID: <12765@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 88 10:58:55 GMT
References: <4964@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <3395@vpk4.UUCP> <12755@mimsy.UUCP> <766@vsi.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <12755@mimsy.UUCP> I wrote
>>... Unix may win out over a technically superior O/S for a particular
>>application simply because most of the needed software already exists.

In article <766@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) answers:
>Wow, I've never heard *that* about UNIX before :-).

Simply because there *are* no superiour [what spelling consistency?]
O/Ses.  (Yet.)

   :-)

>One of the largest complaints about UNIX is that application
>software is *not* available.  We've got compilers but not (say)
>grocery store accounting systems, and there are many more of
>"them" then there are of "us".

I was thinking more along the lines of data gathering and analysis
for, say, an insect neurology lab.  (Much of this tends to run under
real-time constraints; it might in fact be cheaper to buy an O/S with
RT data gathering already supported than to hack the V7 scheduler.)
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