ulimit considered braindamaged ?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <752 at imagen.UUCP> SofPasuk at imagen.UUCP (Munach Rvi'i) writes:
>This is just another example of what happens when operating system design is
>performed by persons who do not understand how real world computer systems are
>used (i.e., where commercial applications programs are run and possibly 
>developed by non-computer-nerd, real world people).  No wonder AT&T is having
>problems selling their concept of computers and software ...

I don't know "where you're coming from", but it is perhaps instructive
to observe that ulimit was introduced by the real-world, commercially-
oriented people inside AT&T.  Those whom you would probably (unjustly)
brand as "computer nerds" knew better.