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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX 9th edition
Message-ID: <9396@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Jan 89 15:58:26 GMT
References: <19070@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <9374@smoke.BRL.MIL> <15471@mimsy.UUCP> <8767@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8767@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP () writes:
>No I think the original poster really just meant "altered". This covers
>the range from "improved" to "garbled".

Yup.
UNIX System V is a strange mixture of excellent and poor,
depending on what part you look at.  I don't know if it's
getting a LOT better, but it tries to be more reliable
than the research software, and sometimes accommodates a
wider variety of applications.  But it sure is big!