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From: jpatrick@crl.com (J. Heather Patrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.unixware
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
Date: 12 Dec 1994 22:26:03 -0800
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In article <3cie3e$rej@bantu.provo.novell.com>,
Darren R. Davis <darrend@bikini.USG.Sandy.Novell.COM> wrote:

>|> : |> 8) working man pages
>
>Have that many people really had problem with this?

Yes.

Everyone at my office who uses unixware hates it for that

>|> 
>|> It means you don't have to recompile the kernel to add device drivers
>|> or change tuning parameters or even add patches. All device drivers are
>|> loadable. You can actually add new disks without turning off the
>|> system, or change the number of pseudotty's or POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED
>|> (or however it's spelled) by editing a file and rebooting.
>
>Yes, UnixWare has all the dynamic loadable stuff just like Solaris,  After
>all, we are SVR4.2 where SunOS was only built on SVR4.0.

Pardon? Is this the fabled UW 2.0? Have you been working on it for so
long that you forget that the standard UW out there has to be recompiled
with the C compiler first before reconfiguring the kernel?