From: tvf@cci632.cci.com (Tom Frauenhofer) Subject: Dead Asks: Is UNIX byte? (Was Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?) Date: 1 Oct 1992 13:45:20 GMT
Seriously, who cares, really?
I run both Dos/Windows 3.1 and Linux. What were my requirements?
1) Support for my ST-02 SCSI card on my 16 Mhz. 386sx.
2) I run a small news feed where I get a subset of the Usenet
hierarchies and forward them to another machine.
3) I occasionally send e-mail to/from home.
4) I write a lot of documents for my work, I need to use the standard
word processor, FrameMaker.
5) I teach a class in Discrete Mathematics at a local technological
institute, and I will be teaching a course in Computer Architecture
during the spring. I need C++ and Unix to have a similar
environment to what my students will be using.
Linux doesn't do everything I want. Dos/Windows doesn't do everything
I want. If I had a Mac running System 7 it still wouldn't do
everything I want. Dos/Windows and Linux co-existing comes pretty
close, but I have to swap systems, which is a pain, but I can live
with the pain.
To argue the merits of any of the above (Dos/Linux/Unix/System 7)
against each other misses the real issue - I don't run Linux for the
sake of running Linux. I run Linux because it does things for me that
other systems I have access to can't. Same goes for Dos/Windows.