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From: robv@pitstop.West.Sun.COM (Rob Vollum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Tired C programmer (Really configuration files)
Keywords: LispM vs UNIX as an OS
Message-ID: <660@pitstop.West.Sun.COM>
Date: 5 May 89 13:08:16 GMT
References: <1989Apr30.183925.19847@cs.rochester.edu> <656@pitstop.West.Sun.COM> <2308@perseus.sw.mcc.com>
Reply-To: rvollum@sun.com (Rob Vollum)
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In article <2308@perseus.sw.mcc.com> rcp@perseus.sw.mcc.com (Rob Pettengill) writes:

>Try again ... the lisp machine supports logical pathname hosts. 
>
>;rob
>
You're right -- I wasn't considering any LispM "set-logical-pathname-host"
functionality, which was an unfair omission.

The real point of my posting wasn't to get into a feature-by-feature
comparison of LispM vs. UNIX functionality -- that's just another
religious war. Both environments provide some great features; both
systems carry some strange baggage. Which supports you better?
I guess that depends on what you do most.

Rob Vollum
Sun Microsystems, Lexington, MA
rvollum@sun.com, ...sun!sunne!robv