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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!panix!news.panix.com!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 3 Dec 1996 04:39:29 -0500 Organization: Panix Lines: 21 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <580sgh$kpi@panix2.panix.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <casper.32a1813c@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57v6em$p73@helena.MT.net> <casper.32a3e5ae@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91263 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1665 comp.unix.internals:11435 In article <casper.32a3e5ae@mail.fwi.uva.nl>, Casper H.S. Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl> wrote: > >I have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Sun/Large file API Summit's >approach is better in the light of binary compatibilty and a large installed >base. > >Only BSD bigots believe differently. Anyone who claims to have "proven beyond the shadow of a doubt" anything about software is a nut, a moron, a bigot, or some combination of the three. And this after hand-waving away the...slight problem...with the previous *unqualified* claim that the Sun approace "prevented" file corruption, yet! I give up. Like I said, you folks suffer from inpenetrable NIH. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM Stumbling drunk in the railyard looking for God: http://www.panix.com/~tls/