Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!philmtl!ncc!alberta!calgary!enme3!deraadt From: deraadt@enme3.ucalgary.ca (Theo Deraadt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Unix vs. Amiga Message-ID: <1676@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Date: 8 Aug 89 09:27:00 GMT Sender: news@calgary.UUCP Reply-To: deraadt@enme3.UUCP (Theo Deraadt) Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Lines: 17 I find that one of the greatest things about using Unix over Amiga is that everything in the entire system is size independent. Generally there are no maximum sizes in the machine anywhere. If there are, they can be changed easily. Look at how easily and invisibly the maximum number of file descriptors for a process changed. See how select() nicely took care of it in SunOS.. in the Amiga to do anything of the kind you have to play with system internals. It's simply disgusting. There are many wonderfull things in Unix, and for some unexplainable reason, a great deal of bias against it. I don't know why.. I don't remember who said it on the net a while ago, but it was something like "Those who ignore Unix are doomed to repeat it, badly" Looks like a classic case.