[Info-vax] [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

[Bill Pechter]

In article <asiihqFaea6U2 at mid.individual.net>,
Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>In article <kk06eh$hds$1 at online.de>,
>	helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
>> In article <kjvfjl$v2a$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, Keith Parris
>> <keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> writes: 
>> 
>>> By this logic, the GNU project and Linux could never have caught up 
>>> with, much less surpassed or exceeded, UNIX capabilities.
>> 
>> The goalposts were much closer in the case of unix.
>> 
>
>In what way has Linux "surpassed or exceeded" Unix?  Other than,
>perhaps, in marketing.
>
>bill
>
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Depends upon which Unix.  It's lightyears ahead of SysVR2 and 3.
It's more reliable than Solaris 2.x.

Unix is not an OS -- it's a family of OS's.

Unfortunately, Windows 7 and server 2003 has exceeded or surpassed
the Unix versions above. 

Hell... both Win7 and Linux have surpassed VAX/VMS below 3.5 in my
opinion.

Bill
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