From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!esquire!nrh
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: mag tape ballots counted
Article-I.D.: esquire.373
Posted: Mon Jul 26 12:00:44 1982
Received: Thu Jul 29 06:45:49 1982
References: unc.3730

Choke!  GASP!  OS/360?  Look, the tape drive stuff works fine!  
Sure, it doesn't have a million options to make a tape look like
a particular file number, to send you a signal when you try to read
past end-of-file, and so forth, BUT IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? Or do you
want the 90% of usefulness for 10% of the complexity that UNIX is so 
good at?

Isn't the entropic bristling of the tty driver enough?  Must the tape
drive stuff start expanding too?

						yours for simplicity,

						- Nat Howard