Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!woods
From: woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Unix bigotry
Summary: Unix can't do it?!?!
Message-ID: <1989Feb19.143026.428@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 89 19:30:26 GMT
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In article <7541@venera.isi.edu> raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) writes:
>	Darn right.  Living in a "standard" UNIX architecture has 
>	presented our project with software engineering obstacles
>	that we haven't surmounted.  Our last conclusion was that
>	in essence we'd need to build an OS kernel over UNIX in
>	order to meet our needs.  That's the hard way -- it would
>	be easier to build the kernel under UNIX, as in MACH, but
>	that wouldn't be "standard".

I am, and I'm sure many others on this side of the Unix fence are,
curious as to what you are attempting to build.  I have a bit of
difficulty imagining any application that requires more support than
what is available in the various modern versions of Unix (unless, of
course, you are trying to emulate something designed with a different
philosophy in mind, in which case I suggest a re-design).
-- 
						Greg Woods.

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