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In article u600WBO40k2xV@andrew.cmu.edu, Sean McLinden <sean+@andrew.cmu.edu> () writes:
>>I don't reagard it a "real" UNIX, then again I wouldn't buy a "real" UNIX,
>>1970s software technology is not something I would want to buy today.
>
>[And here I was beginning to like you because you commented, correctly, that
>BSD was still in demand. Oh well.]
>
>Statements like the above excerpt I would expect from Bill Gates but not from
>a real programmer. To say that you wouldn't use Unix because it is 1970s
>technology is a bit like saying you wouldn't speak French (or English or...)
>because it is centuries old. What we call Unix, today, is hardly anything
>like what came out of AT&T Bell Labs in the early days and is even a long
>way from early System V and BSD 4.2 of a few years (well, maybe more than

I think that is what the original poster meant ... It seems to me he was saying
"real" UNIX is one of those early incarnations, as opposed to a more modern
UNIX. I don't remember whether he implied he would buy a "modern" UNIX though ...

Personally, I wouldn't speak English like they did centuries ago, but I do speak 
it in the current dialect (roughly speaking). I use a modern UNIX but if a SUN or
a NeXT came with a "real" UNIX from the '70s they might have a bit of a problem
selling them.

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Gordie Freedman
gordie@kaleida.com

These are not even real opinions so don't go blaming Kaleida for them