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- Path: sparky!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
- Message-ID: <1483@pacsoft.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 21:16:30 GMT
- References: <31DEC199210495450@author.gsfc.nasa.gov> <C04zI3.EuK@mtholyoke.edu> <78950@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
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- In an article, bob@comlab.gatech.edu (Bob Baggerman) writes:
- >[...] The word "open" conveys little or no meaning in the context of
- >computers or operating systems these days.
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- Only because the marketing folk have used words and phrases like "RISC" and
- "open system" with such reckless abandon have they ceased to be meaningful.
- Today, "open system" really means "open your wallet to buy my system".
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- Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
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