Multiple Unix Universes
Rick Genter
rgenter at BBN-LABS-B.arpa
Thu Jul 31 23:08:40 AEST 1986
Guy Harris writes:
> The point is that you *can't* hide the differences. You *have* to choose
> one version of "init", for instance. And you either have to choose one
> version of UUCP or have the administrator support both. It's not clear that
> a 99% solution is enough better than a 97% solution to justify all the extra
> gore needed to get that last 2%; the law of diminishing returns takes over.
> There ain't no 100% solution.
> - --
> Guy Harris
> {ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
> guy at sun.com (or guy at sun.arpa)
There is a 100% solution, though as far as I know no one has actually
implemented it yet. See my paper "Unix as a Virtual Machine Environment"
from the Atlanta Usenix Proceedings.
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Rick Genter BBN Laboratories Inc.
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I wonder if I could ever get started in the credit world?
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