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: tojst1+@pitt.edu (Tore Joergensen) Subject: Re: Unix Haters Date: 1996/03/26 Message-ID: <4j8v9c$ae2@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 144339103 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4iutmh$790@ionews.ionet.net> <4j3qve$cv0@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <1996Mar26.052134.21457@nosc.mil> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ organization: University of Pittsburgh newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Wallace E. Owen (owen@nosc.mil) wrote: : >"moi (moi@news) wrote: : >:truth is.. unix is and will always be ahead of everything else. : 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. Take SOM and DSOM. I think SOM (System Object Model) was available for OS/2 before it was available for AIX. A language independent object model is nice (OK, I'm not sure what is/was available on NextStep, but at least it is something that most Unixs don't/didn't have). DSOM allows language independent, OS independent, Computer independent objects that can be accessed across a network. I'm not sure how well CORBA will implement language independence, but DSOM is supposed to be compliant with the CORBA standard (which as far as I know isn't finished yet... don't ask me how something can be compliant with something that don't exist :-). Anyway, since Unix has been so popular in academic/research communities, it has more "I was first"s than most OSs. That doesn't mean that it is first with everything. OS/2 has some "I was first"s, and Amiga has some. The supprising thing is that Windows don't have more (if they have any). : 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. Unix is one of very few non-proprietary OSs. I think it is wrong to say that you are locked to a small collection of hardware _vendors_ if you use PCs though :-). Of course there aren't much difference between the products from PC vendors, but there are lots of them. You are locked to one OS vendor if you use Windows or OS/2 though (and hardware vendor for Mac, Amiga, Atari ST and lots of others). -- +-------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Tore B. Joergensen | e-mail : tore@lis.pitt.edu | | Centre Court Villa | web : http://www.pitt.edu/~tojst1 | | 5535 Centre Avenue # 6 | | | Pgh, PA 15232, USA | Norwegian MSIS-student at Univ. of Pgh. | +-------------------------+-------------------------------------------+