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From: csd1032@UX.ACSS.UMN.EDU ("Aaron Y. T. Cheung")
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Subject: Re: a holiday gift from Robert "wormer" Morris
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Date: 19 Nov 88 17:43:17 GMT
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In article <CMM.0.88.595118467.bill@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> bill@UHCCUX.UHCC.HAW
   AII.EDU (William J. King) writes:
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|     4.  Lets engineer better operating systems!

better in what sense? is Multics better than Unix?

|     5.  More distribution of binary systems and less source code.

Please justify.  For as I see it, binaries are more difficult to
patch satisfactorily when problems arise (Murphy's Laws predict so)
and that Trojan hourses could creep in more readily, especially
regarding distributions in public domain.

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