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Article #12561Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
From: Volker Herminghaus-Shirai
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:31
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:31
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In article <C0K4HJ.AEo@dscomsa.desy.de> hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker) writes: > In article <28164@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, torek@horse.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes: [stuff deleted] > |>Some OSes provide an enormous collection of `standard > |>interpretations', and some provide only a few. The VMS people insist > |>that it is better to have 16 built-in record formats; the UNIX people > |>insist that it is better to have none. > |> > |>Both are right, both are wrong; neither way is `better'. > > Not true. UNIX was written in a great hurry and file type was something they > didn't want to bother with. To cover their tracks Thompson et al created a huge > wadge of waffle pretending that it was a deliberate optimization. Sorry to break in, but can I cross-post this to rec.humor.funny? I'm sure I'll get accepted :-) -- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@qb.rhein-main.de), NeXTmail welcome Looks good on the outside, but - intel inside
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!incom!orfeo!qb!vhs From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted Message-ID: <1993Jan12.163125.10898@qb.rhein-main.de> Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de References: <C0K4HJ.AEo@dscomsa.desy.de> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 16:31:25 GMT Lines: 25