🚀 go-pugleaf

Phill Hallam-Baker (hallam@zeus02.desy.de) wrote:
: 	1) Online manual still designed with aim of minimizing disk space rather than
: providing information.
Not if your sys-admin runs catman 8-)

: 	2) No help facility.
Since I read this in  comp.sys.hp try vuehelp or the help button in a Motif
window.

: 	3) No standardized user firendly shell.
Got me there, I don't recall Posix doing a freindly shell standard.

: 	4) Command qualifiers hard coded into applications making multilanguage
: customization impossible.
Since when is "ps -dfla" or "cpio -paduvmx" language dependent?

: 	5) Requires expensive expert to have a chance of any security.
Security is expensive.  It starts with physical security ie big blokes
who don't smile, then you can have an expensive OS with good security or
Unix with an expensive security guru or DOS and take the disk home.

: 	6) File system limited to sequential file, forcing applications to create their
: own file system on top of the UNIX one, thus preventing any standardization or
: application independent optimization.
(Snore) Try "man fseek".

: |> Like most modern languages, Unix has survived because it is
: |>...
: I disagree. It passed it's sell by date years ago. 
So have I.

Phippo the Hippo.