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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e2f60618cf3eaa8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-25 07:05:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!feeder.via.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3DB94FA3.4010803@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Distributed Ada (Annex E) References: <3DB479E6.1725E12C@lmco.nospammmmmm.com> <87lm4qsybu.fsf@inf.enst.fr> <7vlm4qoars.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> <807366e2.0210221346.1d6b0df0@posting.google.com> <7vadl5o5m2.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> <807366e2.0210232145.7e5d0d45@posting.google.com> <807366e2.0210240727.7ed8ba8c@posting.google.com> <807366e2.0210242102.6204eceb@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:05:23 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1035554723 151.168.133.155 (Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:05:23 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:05:23 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30128 Date: 2002-10-25T09:05:23-05:00 List-Id: > This has proven enlightening -- GNU sed 3.02 behaves differently > on Linux than on XP -- with the same shell. GNU should be GNU anywhere, eh? There's a big difference between GNU vs. GNU and Unix vs. Microsoft, but here's a good story anyway: from http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/06/2030205.shtml Question 5) True Story? Was the story about you embarrassing a Microsoftie at a conference true? Specifically, that he was insisting that their implementation of ksh in their unix compatibility kit was true to the "real" thing and trying to argue the point with you. The argument ended when someone else finally stood up and informed the speaker who he was arguing with. Just curious ... Korn: This story is true. It was at a USENIX Windows NT conference and Microsoft was presenting their future directions for NT. One of their speakers said that they would release a UNIX integration package for NT that would contain the Korn Shell. I knew that Microsoft had licensed a number of tools from MKS so I came to the microphone to tell the speaker that this was not the "real" Korn Shell and that MKS was not even compatible with ksh88. I had no intention of embarrassing him and thought that he would explain the compromises that Microsoft had to make in choosing MKS Korn Shell. Instead, he insisted that I was wrong and that Microsoft had indeed chosen a "real" Korn Shell. After a couple of exchanges, I shut up and let him dig himself in deeper. Finally someone in the audience stood up and told him what almost everyone in the audience knew, that I had written the 'real' Korn Shell. I think that this is symbolic about the way the company works.