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 Lines: 23 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) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me