From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!pavel
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: TIOCIOANS, TIOCSIGNAL
Article-I.D.: cornell.3537
Posted: Fri Sep 10 00:17:24 1982
Received: Fri Sep 10 06:51:23 1982
References: sri-unix.3113

I really wish that the people who are bitching and moaning and cautioning
Berkeley with regard to what 4.2bsd 'had better provide' would please read
the 4.2bsd System Manual, freely available from Berkeley.  The step from
4.1 to 4.2 is of a magnitude and \quality/ very different from anything
else that Berkeley has yet released.

The ARPA team has produced a very clean, very spartan kernel implementation,
not just a feature-fest, as could be said of 4.1, for example.  The new
organisation is extremely flexible, extremely efficient, and very, very
promising.  I would feel comfortable staying with this kernel/system
organisation for at least the forseeable future.

Rather than try to convince you without giving you the background, let me
just ask you to get and read that manual before you moan.  4.2bsd puts to
rest, for me anyway, any questions about whose UNIX is the one to buy and/or
support.  The Unix Support Group at BTL may as well just start learning about
4.2; System III has been obsoleted.

	Pavel Curtis
	Cornell University
	Pavel.Cornell@Udel-Relay
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