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From: "Thumper!" <thumper@vfr.interceptor.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 19:57:12 -0700
Organization: Interceptor Systems
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To: Justin Rhys Thuryn McNutt <rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu>
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Justin Rhys Thuryn McNutt wrote:
> : "Thumper!" <thumper@vfr.interceptor.com> writes:
>
> : >Some things it doesn't have
>
> : > legacy network (such as VINES) support
>
> : But how about NFS, SMB, Netware? Isn't that enough?
> : (not if your company happens to have a VINES network, of course...)
>
> Besides, what's TCP/IP and UDP? Chopped liver? You don't have to have
> connection to "the" Internet to use a TCP/IP network.
TCP/IP isn't bad, but it's a lot bigger hassle that serves no purpose on
smaller networks. For example, if you're running NT with DHCP and WINS,
and someone brings in a laptop running Win95, they can plug it in, and it's
effectively auto-configured.
And inherently the attidtude of "what's wrong with..." or "you just have to
add this..." and "xxx is better anyways, so who needs yyy" is exactly what
keeps any UNIX from being the operating system for the masses.
That's not saying the UNIX is a horrible product, it's just saying that
UNIX remains an operating system for people who spend a substantially
larger amount of time working ON computers than the average guy at home.
--
Thumper! Leporidae Extraordinhare
thumper@vfr.interceptor.com http://www.interceptor.com/~thumper
"Life is to achieve the impossible"