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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ulimit considered braindamaged ?
Message-ID: <5503@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 14:11:32 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5503
Posted: Fri Jan  9 14:11:32 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Jan-87 21:52:28 EST
References: <790@maynard.BSW.COM> <166@herman.UUCP> <10943@sun.uucp> <1607@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <752@imagen.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: ulimit SysV irksome

In article <752@imagen.UUCP> SofPasuk@imagen.UUCP (Munach Rvi'i) writes:
>This is just another example of what happens when operating system design is
>performed by persons who do not understand how real world computer systems are
>used (i.e., where commercial applications programs are run and possibly 
>developed by non-computer-nerd, real world people).  No wonder AT&T is having
>problems selling their concept of computers and software ...

I don't know "where you're coming from", but it is perhaps instructive
to observe that ulimit was introduced by the real-world, commercially-
oriented people inside AT&T.  Those whom you would probably (unjustly)
brand as "computer nerds" knew better.