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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands
Date: 26 Aug 94 18:23:02 GMT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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brewer@hamlet.umd.edu (Peter Brewer) writes:
>In article <3552@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
>Jim Jagielski <jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>>
>>Well... so much of it depends on what you learned on. Believe it or
>>not, my background is about 55% SysV, 15% SysIII (on a PDP-11 :) ) and
>>the rest BSD. No doubt about it, BSD extensions make UNIX much better,
>>but I like the core of SysV better... don't know why, just do.
>>--
>> | Jim Jagielski | jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov | V: 301 286-5964 |
>Jim, Jim, I thought you of all people would know better by now?
>Berkeley "extensions"? How many filesystems on your machine are configured
>to use the Berkeley Fast File System as opposed to Sys V ufs? I thought so.
>How often do you use TCP/IP and its friend NFS? Wasn't it MACH-Berkeley who
>contrived lightweight threads and multi-threaded kernels? Was X Windows
>built for Berkeley or for System V initially? Which environment got Appletalk
>networking support first? (Mt Xinu et al) Okay now which environment got
>Postscript, NeWS, Display Postscript first?
Well, I'm the kinda guy that things of cars as bucket seats with various
extensions (like engines, wheels, brakes, etc...) :) :) :)
Of course, SysV has had their share of Good Unix Extensions additions
such as Streams, multiple run-states (init), HDB UUCP... and I like
'lp' over 'lpr'.
Of course, we can also blame BSD for sendmail, and rlogin, etc... :)
No doubt, UNIX is mucho better thanks to Berk... I would guess that if
I had to choose between "virgin" SysV and "straight" BSD, I'd go with
BSD , but where can you find "virgin" SysV nowadays. Today, SysV is nothing
more than SysV with lots o' BSD included.
Me? Well, my 1st inclination is 'ps -efl' and not 'ps -aux'... Most probably
always will be ;)
--
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| Jim Jagielski | jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov | V: 301 286-5964 |
| NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4 | Greenbelt, MD 20771 | F: 301 286-1719 |
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