Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!hjespers From: hjespers@attcan.UUCP (Hans Jespersen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: att & osf Summary: att,osf,svid, and other neat stuff Message-ID: <3404@vpk4.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 88 13:27:54 GMT References: <4964@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <3395@vpk4.UUCP> <1988Aug8.174232.112@utzoo.uucp> Organization: AT&T Canada Inc., Toronto Lines: 55 I have to back Henry up on this one. AT&T is the most kniving, mean, evil, and nasty company on the face of the earth, no I take that back, the entire universe. They are totally bent on making UNIX a completely unportable, AT&T specific operating system. They have purposely written sneaky NULL pointer stuff in there just to screw up other vendors machines. Machines that at the time, hadn't even been built yet. Now that's sneaky. And then they have the nerve to charge $795 for a copy of this useless piece of junk for my Super Turbo 386i+. And I don't even get a free micro-fiche reader with that. I'm talking highway robbery here. $795 for something that took a mere 20 years and 3.2 zillion dollars to develop (and the trash still can run my CPM programs). And then they go and publish this thing called a SVID and tell everone that they got to comform to it. Not only that, they go and modify the damn thing every time a significant advancement is made in the computer industry. I understand they're about to modify it again and add a whole new bunch of stuff about networking. Imagine that, networking in an operating system description. If AT&T were smart, they would have written ONE SVID back in 1969 and we'd all be running perfectly compatible MULTICS OS's all written in B language. On the other hand there are the wonderful guys at OSF like IBM and DEC. These two companies are committed to open architectures and open systems. They have been for years. I can take my IBM mainframe hard disk unit home in my pickup truck, plug her in to my Super Turbo 386i+ via the SCUZIOD interface, and away I go. 89.6 gillion ExaBytes online. Perfect for those large DBase I files. Then I can call up my friend in California (he has a VAX) and with a simple cvcp (CMS to VMS copy) I can download my database in no time. Are we talking open systems here or what. Come on AT&T wake up and smell the coffee. This Scott MacQuarrie guy should shut up and go and post in a news group he KNOWS something about, like bionet.zoology.futures. ### ## ### # # ### ##### # ### # # # # ## ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Jespersen | AT&T Canada Inc. | PLACE SILLY TEXT BASED PHONE : (416)499-9400 | GRAPHIC DOODAD HERE. UUCP : {uunet}!attcan!hjespers | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The opinions expressed above ARE NOT those of my employer. The opinions expressed above ARE those of Elvis (yes, the king is alive and well and living in Kallamazoo Mich.).