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Article #1932Re: unix brings back obscurity?
From: Mark Crispin
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1986 20:50
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1986 20:50
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An operating system that is "not...what [large segments of
the computer industry] want" is not "absolutely wonderful." Nor
is it "efficient", since Unix systems typically spend about 50%
of the CPU in the operating system. One questions the flexibility
of an operating system which lacks file locking, record structure,
and shared writeable pages -- granted these are now being shoehorned
into Unix, but they should have been in there from the beginning.
Are you aware that Dennis Ritchie once said that if he had
known about Tenex, he never would have invented Unix? The goal in
designing Unix were to create an quick and dirty operating system
on a discarded PDP-7 so a group in Bell Labs (which had been denied
their purchase request for a newer and large CPU) could get some work
done.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!info-atari From: MRC%PANDA@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA (Mark Crispin) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: unix brings back obscurity? Message-ID: <12173670725.8.MRC@PANDA> Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 15:50:32 EST Article-I.D.: PANDA.12173670725.8.MRC Posted: Wed Jan 8 15:50:32 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jan-86 03:06:51 EST References: <2457@ukma.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 16