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.
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