System V Release 4.0 Developer Conferences
Ozan Yigit
oz at yunexus.UUCP
Thu Sep 29 05:17:40 AEST 1988
In article ??? henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>Herewith roughly what my friend told me.
>
>The kernels will be very big, probably needing a 16MB machine just to get
>started. Nobody liked the sound of that.
>
Holy OS. Even VMS does not require that much.
>
>In general, overall, the system is not getting simpler or cleaner. Quite
>the contrary: it is getting bloated, complex, and slow. It will be
>difficult and expensive to run, support, and learn.
>
Nice to know there will be something else for more religious
Un*xFolk to boo and hiss about becides VMS. :-)
If your friend is correct, then this may be the equivalent
of a time-warp: back to Multics. (boy, this would really make
the Bell Labs people cringe !!...) I sincerely hope I will
have other alternatives by the time this bagbiter comes into
the market.
oz
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