Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!caen.engin.umich.edu!conliffe 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. Lines: 26 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. -- ___________________ Darryl C. Conliffe conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu (313) 721-6069 -------------------