Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!harvard!wjh12!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ISM780!abe From: abe@ISM780.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: UNIX and real-time and when is UNIX Message-ID: <11@ISM780.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 00:30:08 EST Article-I.D.: ISM780.11 Posted: Thu Nov 29 00:30:08 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 04:52:09 EST Lines: 25 Nf-ID: #R:decvax:-11500:ISM780:14400018:000:1071 Nf-From: ISM780!abe Nov 19 10:14:00 1984 >Wrong, PC/IX is System III hacked into an even less usable form by >Inactive Systems Corp of Santa Monica. The author of this statement has clearly never seen or used PC/IX, or if he has, is one of those types who has serious troubles objectively evaluating a product. While he is correct in his assertion that PC/IX is based on System III code, it is inconceivable that PC/IX can be called less usable, either in the code or in the documentation, than System III. There is VERY little in System III that has been left out of PC/IX (tar is the only "major" missing command, but is replaced by the ISC dump and restore) and a number of MAJOR improvements (INed, queueing system, usable system management commands, much better documentation, countless bug fixes, etc.) have been added. The slur on Interactive's name, while hardly shocking or unusual in this forum, still reinforces the belief that the statement was a knee-jerk reaction based on some unknown prejudices of the author. -- Abe Ellenberg Interactive Systems Corp. cca!ima!abe