Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 is the result of anticompetitive practices by IBM and Microsoft
Message-ID: <10802@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 11 May 88 16:46:19 GMT
References: <1623@looking.UUCP> <1612@looking.UUCP> <3094@edm.UUCP> <3230@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <3230@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) writes:
| When people say that PC's should run Unix, they don't care about the
| filesystem code or the details of administration (as long as it's not
| too bad).  They want it to look like Unix, to have ^Z and vi, and for
| [...]

I use the MKS toolkit to get most of this.  It's not perfect, but pretty
decent. 

| As for the disk problems when turning off the machine -- how hard can
| it be to make the off switch a "soft" power switch, that does a sync 
| before shutting off the power? The problem isn't the technology here,
| it's the mindset.

I think that's the way the AT&T computers work now, at least on the
3B[25] lines.  As I recall the "power switch" does a hasty shutdown and
then powers down under software control.  Someone with a 3B5 correct me
if i"ve remembered a "non-fact."

-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me