Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!dgis!daitc!jkrueger 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 References: <1114@aber-cs.UUCP> <278@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> <2089@uceng.UC.EDU> <45369@bbn.COM> <2118@uceng.UC.EDU> <00312@sarek.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.unix Organization: DTIC Special Projects Office (DTIC-SPO), Alexandria VA Lines: 24 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 -- 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?