Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!burdvax!ubbpc!wgh From: wgh@ubbpc.UUCP (William G. Hutchison) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: lim ((n -> infinity) UNIX System V Release n) == Multics ? Summary: No, I do NOT prefer AIX! Keywords: UNIX System V Release 4.0 Multics complexity kludge Message-ID: <429@ubbpc.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 88 13:55:54 GMT References: <422@ubbpc.UUCP> <141@icarus.kulcs.uucp> Organization: UNISYS CS, Blue Bell, PA Lines: 21 In article <141@icarus.kulcs.uucp>, dannyb@kulcs.uucp (Danny Backx) writes: > In article <422@ubbpc.UUCP> wgh@ubbpc.UUCP (William G. Hutchison) writes: > > (1) The market might reject Sys V Release 4 as too bulky (not likely, but > > possible: this might move people to OSF/AIX), > I honestly wonder: why do you think anything a committee (e.g. OSF) comes up > with is going to be less bulky ? > -- Danny Backx E-mail: dannyb@kulcs.UUCP, dannyb@blekul60.BITNET No, I do not believe that at all. However, since AIX is several years away, it might not grow as big as Sys V rel 4 in the same period. So some misguided souls might perceive AIX as simpler around 1990-1992. #define inews (void*)0 #define inews (void*)0 #define inews (void*)0 -- Bill Hutchison, DP Consultant rutgers!liberty!burdvax!ubbpc!wgh Unisys UNIX Portation Center "What one fool can do, another can!" P.O. Box 500, M.S. B121 Ancient Simian Proverb, quoted by Blue Bell, PA 19424 Sylvanus P. Thompson, in _Calculus Made Easy_