Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!david From: david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes) Newsgroups: ont.uucp Subject: Re: utzoo upheavals Message-ID: <3007@geac.UUCP> Date: 14 Jul 88 11:20:34 GMT Article-I.D.: geac.3007 References: <1988Jul11.035841.266@utzoo.uucp> <799@yunexus.UUCP> <1988Jul13.102606.16126@lsuc.uucp> Reply-To: david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes) Organization: Bouncey bouncey Lines: 28 David Sherman writes: >Oxan Yigit writes: >>Good luck, Henry. Given what you pulled out of an 11/44 in the last >>5-or-so years, I can't wait to see what will happen with a 3/180. >>[Ah, but I know... there has never been anything like a PDP-11.] > >Actually, it's not the PDP-11 that Henry will miss. It's >v7 UNIX, which we oldtimers still cling to. (Actually, I >clung to v6 for even longer.) Nothing like an operating system >that one can *understand*. Ozan, get a load of these old timers! Sounds like the arguments I get. ``Berkeley? Why would you ever want to go with Berkeley when AT&T has published this *nice* SVID?'' Can't you just hear Henry now? ``Now *why* would they do that when it used to be done this way, which made so much more *sense*?'' Ah! To be a fly on that wall! -david- SVID a unix definition even managers pretend to understand. Oh yes... definitely ;-)