Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!utah-cs!utah-gr!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: ASCII, EBCDIC, and other character sets Message-ID: <731@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 15:59:39 EDT Article-I.D.: mmintl.731 Posted: Thu Oct 24 15:59:39 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 19:19:33 EDT References: <10763@ucbvax.ARPA> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 17 Summary: It may be a long wait In article <10763@ucbvax.ARPA> fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes: >I think that the proper approach is to start over completely. [...] > >Me? I'll continue to use UNIX in its current form (4 BSD, when I have >the option) until the new system is available, and you can bet that it >will support whatever I'm doing at that time better than `old' UNIX >did, or I won't buy it. This is exactly the problem with starting over completely. There is so much "stuff" in *NIX that it is almost impossible to produce a new system which supports everything you are doing as well as it, much less better. And if nobody uses it, it will never catch up. The solution? I don't have it. Frank Adams ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Multimate International 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108