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
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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
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