Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: IBM's influence on OSF (Re: AT&T Joining OSF) Message-ID: <1988Aug15.175240.25321@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <4459@cbmvax.UUCP> <11410007@eecs.nwu.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 88 17:52:40 GMT In article <11410007@eecs.nwu.edu> naim@eecs.nwu.edu (Naim Abdullah) writes: >Why are VMS sources so significantly bigger than UNIX sources ? ... Because Unix was written (originally) by a handful of competent people. Also, said competent people were not under any compulsion to meet a formal spec saying the system had to be all things to all users, so they didn't need and didn't implement a lot of the obscure sludge that VMS has. -- Intel CPUs are not defective, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology they just act that way. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu