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Article #482obsolete Sequent software
From: Gregg Townsend
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 1991 16:57
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 1991 16:57
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I have to second R. B. Jim's comments about Sequent software. It's pitiful.
Sequent's dual-universe approach is especially bad. You can't write a program
that uses both memset() and mkdir() although such a program runs on the Unix
systems from Sun, Dec, MtXinu, SGI, HP, NeXT, and Encore -- and in either
universe of an Apollo.
Sequent doesn't even seem to understand. They're so proud that they're finally
moving to SVR3.2 while that the rest of the world is moving to SVR4 -- which,
please note, is the one that merges in most of the BSD features people want.
I have been passing on these complaints to everyone who asks how we like our
Sequent. Rock-solid hardware, pathetic software.
Gregg Townsend / Computer Science Dept / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721
+1 602 621 4325 gmt@cs.arizona.edu 110 57 16 W / 32 13 45 N / +758m
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!arizona!gmt From: gmt@cs.arizona.edu (Gregg Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent Subject: obsolete Sequent software Keywords: mv Message-ID: <536@coatimundi.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 21 Feb 91 16:57:09 GMT References: <1991Feb16.000101.4149@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <145463@pyramid.pyramid.com> <53625@sequent.UUCP> <123459@uunet.UU.NET> Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson Lines: 16