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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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: Lawrence Kirby Subject: Re: Unix Haters Date: 1996/03/30 Message-ID: <828207683snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 145035288 x-nntp-posting-host: genesis.demon.co.uk references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <31442F19.6C13@lfwc.lockheed.com> x-mail2news-path: genesis.demon.co.uk organization: none reply-to: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article danpop@mail.cern.ch "Dan Pop" writes: >In VArase@varase.it.luc.edu (Verne > Arase) writes: > >>Unix's main charm is and always has been that it runs on cheap hardware. > >Like Cray's, SGI Challenge's or DEC TurboLasers, right? >Or maybe you were thinking about large parallel systems, like IBM SP/2 >or the Meiko's. Unix does run on cheap hardware. Of course it also runs on extremely powerful (and expensive) hardware. One 'charm' is that you pay your money and you take your choice. -- ----------------------------------------- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com -----------------------------------------