Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:59:06 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: I discussed reading directories as files with jra, |
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On 22 Jun 1999, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro) wrote on 22.06.99 in <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906220156010.13180-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>: > > > Or NT will eventually die. Much more desirable outcome, IMO. It's > > definitely inferior design. Remember, every self-appointed UNIX-killer > > ate flaming death and UNIX is alive and well. Where is VMS? Where is > > OS/2? Where is (spit) MacOS? Exactly. They boast. They suck. They die. > > It is that simple. NT will follow them, just give it some time. New > > "UNIX-killer" will appear, only to follow the previous ones. Who cares?
First of all, YHBT ;-) Sorry, just couldn't resist.
> Wrt. MacOS: > > 1. I've never heard it announced as a Unix-killer, You are lucky, then. > 2. It's currently doing just fine, doing record sales, grabbing market > share from M$ > 3. The designated successor is based on (wait for it) ... Mach+FreeBSD! 1. s/Free/Net/ 2. MacOS kernel goes which way?
> Wrt. OS/2: > > Its death is a pure marketing effect: IBM didn't really market it.
Not only. They've failed to leak enough information to create a productive culture (see Lions, etc.). BTW, I'm completely serious - AFAICS there is nothing similar to UNIX culture around OS/2. There goes the possibility to affect future designs.
> Wrt. NT: > > Interesting enough, when you look at M$'s *technical* documentation, > you'll find that they have a number of nice things to say about Unix in > general and Linux specifically. Don't tell the marketing guys!
<shrug> if their marketing guys would have zero influence on the development... As much as I dislike VMS, NT *might* become very interesting. If they could keep PHBs away. And keep featuritis where it belongs.
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