From: mrm@optigfx.optigfx.com (Mike Murphy) Subject: Re: Linux or 386BSD: neither or both ?? Date: 24 Sep 1992 21:57:53 GMT
In article <1992Sep23.033315.27377@mel.dit.csiro.au> tim@kimba.catt.citri.edu.au (Tim Liddelow) writes:
>X, compiler suites, you name it. I think the problem with Mr. Carp is that
>he seems to realise they are very _different_ operating systems, but doesn't
They are only very different to folks who swim in the Unix (tm) pond.
The similarities far outweigh the differences when one compares them
with other operating systems. This comment from someone who still smiles
when his cron jobs that were supposed to start at 12:00:00.000 start at
12:00:17 (or so).
Where in linux or 386bsd do you find /usr/bin/iebupdte, /bin/iehmove, /etc/authorize,
/usr/local/speed, /sbin/pip, and /edx? Where is the !JOB card manual page? Why can't
I get an operating system for the 386 that simulates 32 magtape drives on its 2.5MB
hard disk?
In the meantime, less flaming, more developing. One might as well have fun with this,
it's not worth getting upset about it.
I'll gladly accept flames from anyone who has
1) a tar archive on paper tape that they can still read, or
2) a still-working Williams tube memory, or
3) a running 7-track magtape drive that doesn't do more than 556BPI.
-- Mike Murphy mrm@Optigfx.COM ucsd!optigfx!mrm +1 619 625 3000 x 265 Optigraphics Corporation 9339 Carroll Park Drive San Diego, CA 92121 The opinion(s) expressed above are mine and not those of my employer.