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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.151318.1376@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 15:13:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu> <1992Nov9.215734.10043@prl.dec.com> <1452@pacsoft.com> <acourtny.721607768@unix1.tcd.ie>
- Organization: Global Village 1
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- acourtny@unix1.tcd.ie (Antony A. Courtney) writes:
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- >>So, Boyd, if UNIX really is dead, where is the funeral? I would so enjoy
- >>paying my last respects ...
-
- >But in the process of adding all of these new "features" to
- >UNIX, these new operating systems somehow lost the brevity, clarity, simplicity
- >and structural elegance of that other system once called UNIX.
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- That's a good point! For instance, instead of using the creat() system call,
- which creates a file with given permissions, they added a parameter open() to
- duplicate the functionality of creat().
-
- >UNIX is dead. Long live UNIX.
-
- Long live Plan 9?
-
- Greetings,
- Peter Busser
-