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From: cswarren@gershwin.berkeley.edu (Warren Gish;269A LSA;x3-9219)
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Subject: Re: GNU & A/UX
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Date: 25 May 89 15:16:24 GMT
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In article <2506@Portia.Stanford.EDU> karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes:
<In article <3253@uokmax.UUCP> rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd) wrote:
<<In article <9365@polya.Stanford.EDU> shaff@Sesame.Stanford.EDU (Mike Shaff) writes:
<
<[ ramblings about conflict between Richard Stallman and Apple ]
<
<<However, since I've got a Mac, I'm the one
<<who gets shafted, not Apple.  And there really aren't any alternatives out
<<there for the serious Unix user.  None of the 386 systems are suitable because
<<they don't have Berkeley job control, Berkeley networking, or Berkeley 
<<*anything*.
<
<	If you buy an IBM PS/2 model 70 or 80 with AIX, you get the
<	Berkeley features listed above, in a 386 system.

Have you ever had the privilege of networking BSD UNIX-based systems
(e.g., Sun) with an AIX-based IBM RT to do printer sharing?
It ain't pretty.  AIX (at least on the RT) doesn't have the lpd
daemon.  Not that lpd is great, but the two UNIXes' print systems
don't talk to each other on a friendly basis.  It's bad enough that
my clients ftp their documents to the Sun and _then_ print.

<	Chuck Karish		{decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!karish
<	(415) 493-7277		karish@forel.stanford.edu

Warren Gish
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
(415) 643-9219
cswarren@violet.berkeley.edu