"Jason" - By your logic, Windows NT 3.1 is all you need for your Enterprise to succeed. Good luck in that endevour! In response to your other point, yes, I would trust my ATM server to Linux. The blue screen is pretty but I would prefer to have money instead. Oh.. not to mention the extra money I would have from using a an open source OS rather than an M$ one... Perhaps Cisco should throw out the Unixish IOS and replace it with a GUI so everyone could write configs for routers. Sounds like a grand idea... Regards, Kelly > What was your point ? That Multics sucks , and by the same token, > therefore Unix sucks and NT/W2K rules !!! At least, NT/W2K was based on > a working operating system. Anyone of you notice that Unix is all about > ego ? If Unix is finished in 1 month, why are there still people > working on it ? On the other hand, if Unix is perfect, why the hell are > people working on it ? If Unix promotes innovation, why is nobody using > it ? Would you trust you ATM machine to Linux ? > > > > ""Jim Dixon"" wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> THE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE B >> >> ABSTRACT >> B is a computer language designed by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson, >> for primarily non-numeric applications such as system programming. >> These typically involve complex logical decision-making, and >> processing of integers, characters, and bit strings. On the H6070 TSS >> system, B programs are usually much easier to write and understand >> than assembly language programs, and object code efficiency is almost >> as good. Implementation of simple TSS subsystems is an especially >> appropriate use for B. This > technical >> report contains a description of the MH-TSS (Honeywell 6070) version >> of B (by S. C. Johnson), and a tutorial introduction to most of the >> features of the language (by B. W. Kernighan). >> >> Ken Thompson >> The principal inventor of the Unix operating system and author of >> the B language, the predecessor of C. >> >> In the early days Ken used to hand-cut Unix distribution tapes, often >> with > a >> note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name >> (sometimes uncapitalised, because it's a login name and mail address) >> in third-person reference; it is widely understood (on Usenet in >> particular) that without > a >> last name "Ken" refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without > last >> name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). >> >> Ken was first hired to work on the Multics project, which was a huge >> production with many people working on it. Multics was supposed to >> support hundreds of on-line logins but could barely handle three. >> >> In 1969, when Bell Labs withdrew from the project, Ken got fed up with >> Multics and went off to write his own operating system. People said >> "well, if zillions of people wrote Multics, then an OS written by one >> guy must be Unix!". There was some joking about eunichs as well. >> >> Ken's wife Bonnie and son Corey (then 18 months old) went to visit >> family > in >> San Diego. Ken spent one week each on the kernel, file system, etc., >> and finished UNIX in one month along with developing SPACEWAR (or was >> it > "Space >> Travel"?). >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Howard C. Berkowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 5:40 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: RE: another OT: why you UNIX guys look down on we NT guys? >> [7:6675] >> >> >> >Want to make any UNIX-head apoplex? Remind them that DOS is UNIX >> >subset. The multi-tasking & multi-threaded functions were dropped >> >because there weren't enough bits in the registers for the Intel >> >8088. These were added back in when the hardware for PC's was >> >available. However, they did add better mnemonics for the UNIX >> >commands so 'ls' became 'dir'. 'Easy' translates to 'stupid' somehow. >> >But even so it's UNIX! DOS is UNIX! tee-hee. >> > >> >DOS clowns. >> >UNIX dweebs. >> >NT geeks. >> >Cisco nerds. >> >Where's Diane Arbus when we need her? >> > >> >- susan >> >> >> Get back to the origins of the name UNIX. Pronounced aloud, is there >> an English word that comes to mind? >> >> The ancestor of UNIX is MULTICS. UNIX is castrated MULTICS. >> >> Extra credit for the two predecessors of C. (No, the first one isn't >> A). > Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=6797&t=6797 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
