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
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Reply-To: david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes)
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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 ;-)