Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Unix bigotry Message-ID: <1989Jan9.114312.26821@ateng.ateng.com> Date: 9 Jan 89 16:43:12 GMT References: <28200249@mcdurb> <451@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> <1951@scolex> <2618@ficc.uu.net> <1128@raspail.UUCP> <2371@garth.UUCP> Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 17 According to smryan@garth.UUCP (s m ryan): >Think of all the wonderful things Unix offers that NOS/VE doesn't: >- only two segments, static+heap and stack. >- no shared codes except libraries staticly assigned to segments. >- no unified command processing. >- no concept of subsystem which permit a layerring of commands. >- no segment=file concept so all disc io gets an extra transfer through > system buffers between the user space and discs. >- no ability for file and system security. "No ability for file and system security" indeed. I think the real bigotry here is quite obvious. -- Chip Salzenberg or A T Engineering Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest! "It's no good. They're tapping the lines."