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: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) Subject: Re: Unix Haters Date: 1996/04/01 Message-ID: <4jok7f$1l2@solutions.solon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 145223333 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover) newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert Dewar wrote: >For me, typical Unix systms = AIX, IRIX, Dec UNIX, HPUX etc. Lots of >people rushed to say that Linux could run on small systems. True >enough, but Linux is NOT a "typical Unix system"! No? How so? It's at least as common as any other, probably, and quite widely distributed. It's recently been POSIX certified, or so we hear. Part of the charm of Unix is that there are two completely unrelated free implementations, and one of those has a small family (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD.) But the cool thing is that NetBSD-1.1, or Linux-1.2, is a perfectly usable, complete system, and you get a source license. I use NetBSD professionally, and SunOS professionally, and right now, NetBSD has only one weakness SunOS doesn't (an arcane VM problem, which has no effect on most systems), and tons of advantages over SunOS. It's certainly, by far, a more mature and stable system. It also beats out other commercial OS's like NT, for performance on any given supported hardware, number of platforms supported (>10), and, of course, price and availability. :) >It is also true that Unix once ran fine on 128K byte PDP 11's, but I >am talking of a typical commercial Unix implementation, including X >and Motif. Ahh. So I could point out that DOS is much bigger than Unix - that is, DOS including an X server, networking software, word processors, a couple gigs of shareware games, and an Amiga emulator. Hardly fair. -s -- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach. C/Unix wizard -- C/Unix questions? Send mail for help. No, really! FUCK the communications decency act. Goddamned government. [literally.] The *other* C FAQ - http://www.solon.com/~seebs/c/c-iaq.html