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From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes
References: <1993Apr15.225354.18654@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1993Apr16.162749.29973@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
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Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Linux box and AmPR node
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 01:44:53 GMT
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WARNING:  Unix religious war!  Followups are sent elsewhere!


In article <1993Apr16.162749.29973@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes:
>In article <1993Apr15.225354.18654@samba.oit.unc.edu> Brandon.Vanevery@launchpad.unc.edu (Brandon Vanevery) writes:
>>SCO Unix has been recommended to me as "the best" of the commercial
>>systems, by a few folks.
>
>	I had the pleasure of using this this product last summer, and 
>have slowly come to the conclusion that anybody who finds this a superior
>product has either never used ANY other UNIX before, is high, or finds
>AIX a close second.

Thank you.  I'd been wondering what drugs his informant was doing :-)  Mind
you, my background is almost exclusively System V --- and the SVR3.1 systems I
worked with for several years before encountering SCO "Unix" were far, far
better than that purported SVR3.2.  Not to mention far more compatible with
both System V and (to a limited extent:  no networking with it) BSD software.
(Unfortunately, it predated POSIX, so there was no compatibility there.)

Nicely packaged, expensive spam is still spam, folks....  :-)

>	Never before have I used a UNIX so lacking in features, so annoying
>to use (even for a SVR? system), and so difficult to get the hang of.

As far as "annoying to use", that's clearly a matter of one's experience.  I
started with System III and moved on to System V when it came out; SunOS4 has
been a real "trip", and I'm looking forward to our installing Solaris 2.1 so
the system will behave as God intended :-) :-) :-) [and I say again for the
humor-impaired:  :-) ]  Let's leave the *ix religious wars to the small-
brained, shall we?

++Brandon
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery					 bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org

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