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- From: noyau@pelane.cubx.com (Eric Noyau)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.163645.2866@pelane.cubx.com>
- Sender: noyau@pelane.cubx.com
- Reply-To: e_noyau@cubx.com
- Organization: Cub'X systemes
- References: <1992Dec18.014048.26507@Celestial.COM>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:36:45 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Dec18.014048.26507@Celestial.COM> bill@Celestial.COM (Bill
- Campbell) writes:
- > In <id.89SV.GJ8@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- writes:
- >
- > :In article <1992Dec10.232841.7252@solucor.uucp> jack@solucor.uucp
- (Jacques Gelinas) writes:
- > :> >implementation problems that have so far been stumbling blocks in
- the path
- > :> >to the general acceptance of UNIX, so I expect that it will fail.
- >
- > :> What is lacking ?
- >
- > :The ability to stick a floppy in a brand new computer, turn it on, and
- > :have it come up running UNIX.
- >
- > SCO ODT 2.0 is almost that simple. Stick in a floppy, stick in
- > a tape, answer a few questions about system name, set root
- > passsword, wait for tape to finish loading. Of course if you
- > know what you're doing, you can go off on tangents to optimize.
- > [...]
-
- NeXTOS is almost that simple. It's already installed on any NeXTStation.
-
- If you want to intall a new version boot from cd-rom and click install or
- upgrade...
-
- And it's UNIX.
-
- Eric
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