att & osf

[Hans Jespersen]

I have to back Henry up on this one. AT&T is the most kniving, mean, evil,
and nasty company on the face of the earth, no I take that back, the entire
universe. They are totally bent on making UNIX a completely unportable,
AT&T specific operating system. They have purposely written sneaky NULL
pointer stuff in there just to screw up other vendors machines. Machines
that at the time, hadn't even been built yet. Now that's sneaky. And then
they have the nerve to charge $795 for a copy of this useless piece of
junk for my Super Turbo 386i+. And I don't even get a free micro-fiche
reader with that. I'm talking highway robbery here. $795 for something that
took a mere 20 years and 3.2 zillion dollars to develop (and the trash
still can run my CPM programs). And then they go and publish this thing
called a SVID and tell everone that they got to comform to it. Not only
that, they go and modify the damn thing every time a significant advancement
is made in the computer industry. I understand they're about to modify
it again and add a whole new bunch of stuff about networking. Imagine that,
networking in an operating system description. If AT&T were smart, they 
would have written ONE SVID back in 1969 and we'd all be running perfectly
compatible MULTICS OS's all written in B language.
   On the other hand there are the wonderful guys at OSF like IBM and DEC.
These two companies are committed to open architectures and open systems.
They have been for years. I can take my IBM mainframe hard disk unit 
home in my pickup truck, plug her in to my Super Turbo 386i+ via the
SCUZIOD interface, and away I go. 89.6 gillion ExaBytes online. Perfect
for those large DBase I files. Then I can call up my friend in California
(he has a VAX) and with a simple cvcp (CMS to VMS copy) I can download
my database in no time. Are we talking open systems here or what.
   Come on AT&T wake up and smell the coffee. This Scott MacQuarrie guy
should shut up and go and post in a news group he KNOWS something about,
like bionet.zoology.futures.

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The opinions expressed above ARE NOT those of my employer.
The opinions expressed above ARE those of Elvis (yes, the king is alive and
well and living in Kallamazoo Mich.).