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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.sgi,comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: Interactive vs Background users
- Message-ID: <sgg342s@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 03:36:40 GMT
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- In <69697@cup.portal.com> Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes:
- | The intelligent solution would have been to have used a VAX/VMS system in
- | the first place; we do, and we use them in the manner you describe, and
- | there's no problem whatsoever. Can you say "process scheduling done RIGHT?"
- | I knew you could. :-) :-) :-)
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- Show me a system where scheduling is done 'right', and I'll show you
- hundreds of people who disagree. There is no such thing as the right
- way to schedule jobs. It is better to provide the flexibility to
- let people do it they way they want. (I recognize the tongue in cheek
- answer, but still, too many people believe that there really is a right
- way to do it).
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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