Path: utzoo!yunexus!oz From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: System V Release 4.0 Developer Conferences Keywords: bloat, vms, SXID Message-ID: <862@yunexus.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 88 19:17:40 GMT Article-I.D.: yunexus.862 References: <167@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <1988Sep22.173745.14647@utzoo.uucp> <8570@smoke.ARPA> <1988Sep26.213223.407@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Organization: York U. Computing Services - Magic Group Lines: 28 In article ??? henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > >Herewith roughly what my friend told me. > >The kernels will be very big, probably needing a 16MB machine just to get >started. Nobody liked the sound of that. > Holy OS. Even VMS does not require that much. > >In general, overall, the system is not getting simpler or cleaner. Quite >the contrary: it is getting bloated, complex, and slow. It will be >difficult and expensive to run, support, and learn. > Nice to know there will be something else for more religious Un*xFolk to boo and hiss about becides VMS. :-) If your friend is correct, then this may be the equivalent of a time-warp: back to Multics. (boy, this would really make the Bell Labs people cringe !!...) I sincerely hope I will have other alternatives by the time this bagbiter comes into the market. oz -- Reflections are | Usenet: ...!utzoo!yunexus!oz images of tarnished aspirations. | ...uunet!mnetor!yunexus!oz RACTER | Bitnet: oz@[yulibra|yuyetti] [an Artifically Insane program.] | Phonet: +1 416 736-5257x3976