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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <id.CS3W.9X8@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Dec22.100028.26428@fasttech.com> <id.0R2W.M24@ferranti.com> <Bzqv2E.Ln8@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:24:01 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <Bzqv2E.Ln8@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
- > In article <id.0R2W.M24@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- > >let them rip. You think UNIX can handle that? When you can stick the machine
- > >on a showroom floor, unmonitored, with the root password taped to the monitor
- > >without having to reload it every day *then* it's ready.
-
- > You can't do this with DOS, either. It's just as easy to type "del
- > c:\command.com" as it is to type "rm /vmunix".
-
- It's easier to type "rm /* .bak". And it's easier to boot off a floppy
- and copy command.com back in.
-
- I was also thinking of people naively messing with the system config files.
- I just had someone render a UNIX box unhappy by changing the root shell
- to /sbin/csh. With DOS if you do something like that, you can easily boot
- off floppy and fix it. With UNIX you need to have someone capable of
- cracking UNIX security, including making a custom boot floppy.
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