From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: owen@nosc.mil (Wallace E. Owen) Subject: Re: Unix Haters Date: 1996/03/26 Message-ID: <1996Mar26.052134.21457@nosc.mil>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 144316721 sender: news@nosc.mil references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4iutmh$790@ionews.ionet.net> <4j3qve$cv0@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert Dewar wrote: >Tore reacted to > >"moi (moi@news) wrote: >: you must not have know how to use it at all. Or maybe you don't like the >: features that win95 and others are just now getting that unix has had for 10+ >: years. truth is.. unix is and will always be ahead of everything else. > >" > >Tore, when someone posts something like that, either they don't know what >they are talking about and should be ignored, or they are trolling. I >would guess the latter in this case :-) > I don't see it as a troll. Take X-windows, for example. What other windowing system works on so many platforms, and allows the compute-intensive portion of your application to run on a compute server while displaying output on a graphical server that's not colocated? What was the first OS to permit mounting another computer's disks over the net? Unix, with RPC/XDR/NFS. Yes, it's now available for some other OS's but none integrate it so well. Unix is also probably the best non-proprietary OS, with fair standards. Compared with Windows NT/95 or OS/2 (Sorry to put OS/2 in the same category as Windows), you're not locked in to a small collection of hardware ven- dors. There are several other firsts, of course. These are probably the most well-known. I'm not saying that it's the best OS. But it's good enough, and more standard than most. I know that in the Ada world we sometimes get a little pedantic (All of us), so when something's not 'perfect' in some regard we get a bit peeved, and that 'C' got where it is today by being 'good enough'. But until someone can point out a better OS available on all the platforms I use, I'll live with it. +-------------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ | "I can see nothing, sire.", the bowman said. | Wally Owen | | "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a | VisiCom Laboratories| | fretful tone. "To be able to see nobody? And at that | (619) 457-2111 | | distance, too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see | 457-0888 Fax | | real people by this light!" | owen@cod.nosc.mil | +-------------------------------------------------------+---------------------+