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: 103376,5b88c1790b375e21 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dirk@hera.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Dirk Dickmanns) Subject: Re: c2ada (cbfe) on Linux? And: Ada graphics lib? Date: 1996/04/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 147116951 references: organization: University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >Dirk said >"(Aside: As Linux is only a student hacker toy, it does not share those >commercial Un*x bugs ;-) Sorry, pun against some posts in the Unix >haters thread included" >See, I said that Linux was not a typical Unix system :-) Sadly enough! It would deserve being it. It was not your comment (I think, but I really don't know and won't look it up), but someone picked on it as a system designed by some student . I can only add: What a student! >In fact Linux is yet another reminder that quality of sotware is >not necessarily directly proportional to cost! Yeah, and it is living software: choose one of a hundred versions with the fewest bugs hurting you and be happy. Mickeysoft allows you to choose between 95 Breaking Windows (tm)... >What is interesting too is the performance of Linux, even on a modest >PC, it can give a Sun work station user quite a surprise in this >regard -- I pushed to get Linux-PC' for our students here at NYU, >and that's where I see this comparison made. Agreed, same experiences over here. My P5-133 at home runs as fast or faster than all our SUNs but the Ultras. And those PC's are cheap (no start of WS vs. PC flame war intended ;-). Dirk -- Dirk Dickmanns -- REALIS -- real-time dynamic computer vision Sun OS 4.1.3; PC Linux; Ada, OCCAM, C, Eiffel, PROLOG, C++