Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!tank!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Remote NeXT Users, etc. Message-ID: <245300020@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 15:00:00 GMT Lines: 31 Nf-ID: #R:<8909272058.AA16856@opus.cs.mcgi:-38:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:245300020:000:1096 Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald Sep 28 10:00:00 1989 /* ---------- "Remote NeXT Users, etc." ---------- */ In his message of 25 Sep 89 03:13:33 GMT jst@cca.ucsf.edu writes: > > Listen, Joe: > > It's fine if you want to use things in ways in which the > designers did not intend them to be used. For example, feel > free to drive your car with your only your feet instead of your > hands (but not on my street, of course). > > [stuff deleted] > >If you're going to be giving me BSD and more, fine. But get the BSD right >first. I think it is perfectly clear that NEXT is using Unix simply as an expedient on the way to building a proprietary OS. They really want to be an island unto themselves, like Apple, in order to lock users in to their proprietary stuff. The difference from Apple is that they started from a real multitasking OS - but, given the way this thread is going, they seem to be trying to prevent NeXts from working well in a heterogeneous networked system (well, half way - they probably will work fine logged INTO a remote ordinary unix box). IF you want Unix, buy a real Unix box. There are lots of them. Doug McDonald