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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ACCESS TO SHARED TAPEDRIVES
Message-ID: <3053@phri.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 20:50:33 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  5 20:50:33 1987
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References: <6740@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3254@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <3254@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ggs@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Griff Smith) writes:
> I built it for 4.[23]BSD using C++.  Since I work for AT&T and we are
> pushing another brand of UNIX System, I probably have to port all the
> Berkeley network and select stuff [...]

	That an AT&T employee would rather use a foreign, unsupported
product than his own company's native, supported, official "one true Unix"
says more about the relative merits of the two versions than anything I can
think of.
 
> I would like to get some idea of real demand for resource allocation
> software.  Would anyone actually pay for it, or must it be freeware?

	Difficult question.  Yes, I would love to have it.  No, I wouldn't
pay for it.  But then, being in an academic environment, there isn't much
software that I *do* pay for.  In a commercial setting, I could very well
see myself forking over some cash for such an allocator (assuming it really
works and is convenient to use); better than explaining to the boss why his
valued tape got overwritten by somebody else who happend to run his tar on
the wrong drive, without complaint from the system.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016