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: steve@hn.hn.planet.gen.nz (Steve Detoni) Subject: Re: Unix Haters Date: 1996/04/10 Message-ID: <4kg0sh$ov3@hn.hn.planet.gen.nz>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 146704947 references: <828361993snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-04-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Lawrence Kirby (fred@genesis.demon.co.uk) wrote: : In article dewar@cs.nyu.edu "Robert Dewar" writes: : >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"! : Intel based systems are probably still the most numerous commercial : Unix systems out there (SCO, Unixware, Solaris plus others). These are full : UNIX(tm) systems. Please, please don't add SCO Unix to this list as I had to write some multiuser, client/server software for it, and it's not as easy to program named pipes as one would hoped! However, when compared to the microsoft beast 'Windows', then it's a dream. steve.