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From: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Differentiation and Compatibility (Was: Memory utilization ... )
Message-ID: <634@daitc.daitc.mil>
Date: 24 Sep 89 14:28:04 GMT
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gsarff@sarek.UUCP (Gary Sarff) writes:

>[UNIX's] same old buggy ugly utilities,

See every version since at least PWB.

>the same kludgy interfaces to the kernel,

See CMU's Mach.

>poor user administration utils,

See any of the system manager shells.

>poor security, etc.

See the major commercial operating systems.  UNIX is neither more nor
less secure than they.

-- Jon
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Jonathan Krueger    jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil   uunet!dgis!jkrueger
Isn't it interesting that the first thing you do with your
color bitmapped window system on a network is emulate an ASR33?