Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site pertec.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!pertec!bytebug From: bytebug@pertec.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group Subject: Re: About nuking newsgroups: Message-ID: <138@pertec.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 07:03:45 EDT Article-I.D.: pertec.138 Posted: Mon Jun 4 07:03:45 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 07:29:10 EDT References: <210@homxa.UUCP> <1941@utcsstat.UUCP> <221@homxa.UUCP> Organization: Pertec Computer Corp., Irvine, CA Lines: 19 Xref: 328 436 > I think that you ought to at least upgrade to a 32 bit machine. At > least while you can still unload your PDP's; Soon nobody may want them. Sure, with people like you around to make the PDP obsolete before it's time... Some people seem to have tunnel vision, and assume that what is good for them will be good for the rest of the world. Unfortunately, there are some basic constraints that the rest of us have to live with, like money. I'm sure if you'd be willing to donate a VAX to the local university, they'd be glad to accept. Until then, they're stuck with an 11/45. I would suggest that some of you people read Ian Darwin's "The UNIX File" column in the June issue of MICROSYSTEMS. Especially the part about "Generation Gap", in which he discusses a conversation with a colleague about the new generation of hacker who seems to want to butcher UNIX because they have no idea of why UNIX was successful in the first place.