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From: conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu (Darryl C. Conliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: why no native unix??
Summary: What 4?
Keywords: just asking
Message-ID: <3ff525ae.14df5@ulsoy.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 88 15:43:00 GMT
References: <18@draci.cs.uow.oz>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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  Peter, I am curious about this, too.  Why did 
Apollo, and from your article, Pyramid, and Sequent , to name the few
you did, choose non-native Unix?

  Have you ever used Aegis?  I operate in 4.2, but use Aegis and
even V utilities all at the same time.  This is great for me, with
problems mostly in the areas of access control lists ( I'd rather
Unix had the same power as Aegis - it's security seems rather
hamhanded in comparison).  I rather like having them all.  What
would you get out of such a change?

  As an afterthought, another Aegis feature I like is being able
to use my Unix alias of lda, which is defined as pwd;/com/sh ld -a -lt.
When I type lda -moa today, I get the files in the current directory
that have been modified today.  Since my home directory has a 
number of trees in it, I really don't like getting a report on
everything at once.  I don't see as simple an analog
in Unix.  I guess I'm glad the baby wasn't dumped out with the bath.

I hope it won't be in the future.
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 Darryl C. Conliffe  conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu  (313) 721-6069
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