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