[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <+22PYgU7oo29 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <%_LYr.4230$3p2.310 at fx03.am4>, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com> writes:
>> On 08/20/12 21:17, David Froble wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> Address the merits of Unix ..
>> 
>> One of the great strengths of unix is that it is a system designed from the
>> start for programmers to be productive.
> 
>    Hack, cough, spat, ...
> 
>    If so, then why didn't it get a decent debugger until the IDEs came
>    out, 

Real Unix people have no problems with the debuggers.  I used adb and
when it came aroiund sdb.  I won't say it was easy, but what was
available on other OSes that was better at the same time?

>         why is it still so hard to get file protections set right, 

I have never had a problem setting file protections.  Oh wait, you mean
"why didn't Unix support what I thought file protections should be?"

>                                                                    and
>    how come I have to roll my own RMS every time?

Because you are used to using RMS and Unix people didn't see a need for
it at the OS level.  Every job doesn't require RMS, why should it be
allowed to get int he way of al those people who don't need it?

But then, these are the same tired, worn out argument used whne I was
here before.  The only thing that has changed is there is now even more
Unix systems in the world and whole lot less VMS.

bill
 

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