ucscb.fiatlux@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (07/20/86)
Someone said that a university shouldn't be a software house. Why? Also, why is BSD always considered the step-child of Unix? BSD Unix is a damn good version of Unix. I like job-control, I like the new tty driver, etc. I haven't used Sys V, but I have used version 7 and that was bad enough for me. However, we replaced it with 2.9 for our PDP's and now the system runs a lot better. I will stick with BSD Unix for as long as I can. (then again, the school I go to is a UC campus, so software support is a tad easier for us). I have seen diganostic messages similar to the "who -bogus" example. However the programs were written by users (mainly students) so they knew the value of a good error message. But from what I've seen of VMS' error messages (and the syntax for that matter) I like Unix a lot better. Options seem easier to use and the command syntax is a lot easier to understand. But people, remember, each OS is appropiate for the application that you are using it for. Each has it's problems, but each has it's advantages. You use them as you see fit. It would be nice if they could combine both of the OS' into a super OS, but I have a feeling that would be a) a major undertaking and b) a pipe dream. David Vangerov UC Santa Cruz (Go Banana Slugs!!) ucscc!ucscb.fiatlux@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU