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From: mlewis@unocss.UUCP (Marcus S. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Unix bigotry
Summary: so?
Message-ID: <670@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 89 15:55:01 GMT
References: <117@spectra.COM> <692@cvbnet2.UUCP> <3101@ficc.uu.net>
Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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In article <3101@ficc.uu.net>, karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer) writes:
> From article <117@spectra.COM>, by pace@spectra.COM (William B. Pace):
> > Those who think that Unix is a 'clean' OS have never looked at AOS code.
> > THAT's a clean system.  Unix, bless it's tin soul, is NOT a clean OS, despite
> > what Unix boosters want to say.  ...
>  
> OK, it's great and squeaky clean (I guess).  Does it run on an incredibly wide
> range of incompatible hardware from a gamut of different manafacturers, as
> Unix (bless its tin soul) does?  
> 
> Although the various Unix bashers each have their own ideas of what's better,
> none of them provide the vendor and architecture independence of Unix.

Well, excuuuuuuse ME!  I have had better luck moving software to AOS/VS
without modifications than I have to our "Unix" machine. So let's talk
about "compatibility", shall we?  Unix certinly isn't, yet.  Shall we
discuss computer system security?  Unix certainly isn't a secure system.
Shall we talk about something else?  Neither I nor Mr. Pace bad-mouthed
Unix onthe net.  In person, well, that's another issue.  Please, let us
agree to disagree.  My personal opinion is that the "best" operating
system depends a lot on the machine and the application.  AOS/VS does
some things that Unix can't do, Unix, likewise is better at some things.
Unix has a LONG way to go before it is as mature and reliable a product
as AOS/VS.  Data General stands a good chance of pushing in that direction,
by the way.  As somebody else pointed out, AOS/VS can run Unix as a guest 
operating system.  Can Unix tolerate AOS/VS?  The Eclipse/MV systems can
run several variants of Unix, and the AOS/VS C compiler thinks it is a SYSV
compiler, except when it thinks it's a BSD compiler. I would be willing
to discuss the relative merits of various OS'es, by e-mail preferably, and
you can bash AOS/VS and I can bash Unix and that would be marvelous. OK?

Marc Lewis