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 decvax!cornell!pavel