Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!ames!hc!lanl!lambda!roberts From: roberts@studguppy.lanl.gov (Doug Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Tired C programmer (Really configuration files) Message-ID: Date: 1 May 89 04:50:16 GMT References: <1989Apr30.183925.19847@cs.rochester.edu> Sender: news@lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 30 In article <1989Apr30.183925.19847@cs.rochester.edu> miller@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Brad Miller) writes: Date: 29 Apr 89 18:46:54 GMT From: roberts@studguppy.lanl.gov (Doug Roberts) Seriously, system admin on a Symbolics LISPm is a serious headache compared to Sun system admin. The networking software is not as sophisticated (yes, I _do_ know about Sun's infamous YP); Actually, I'd say it's more sophisticated: the lispms employ "transparent networking" which is considerably more efficient than UNIX. editing/copying a file on the lispm, e.g. from the INTERNET is (for the user) the same as editing copying locally. You don't run FTP, then copy the file, then edit it... and that's a trivial example. You don't have to do it that way on a Unix system. Simply mount the external file system. (And it's a _lot_ faster than the Symbolics' (ILA)NFS software). --Doug -- =============================================================== Douglas Roberts Los Alamos National Laboratory Box 1663, MS F-602 Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (505)667-4569 dzzr@lanl.gov ===============================================================