woof@psivax.UUCP (Harold Schloss) (12/12/84)
I just got a look at the December 84 issue of Systems and Software and
spotted Multi Solutions Inc.'s ad for the S1 operating system. Now I have
received literature from them in the past and always felt that anything they
said had to discounted a little, but this ad is really something else.
I really got a kick out of the Ten Commandments that they had. I think
there may be some form of reasoning behind them so I am including to see if
anyone can come up with rational reasons for them.
1. Thou shalt not have no other operating system before S1
2. Thou shalt not take the name S1 in vain
3. Thou shalt not grep
4. Thou shalt not sag
5. Neither shalt thou ratfor
6. Thou shalt not make thee any uux
7. Neither shalt thou scat
8. Thou shalt not desire xargs
9. Thou shalt not bear false yacc
10. Thou shalt no commit shmop
The ad then goes on to promise that S1 can do just about everything. It is
multiuser, multitasking, has events, has gates, windowing, bit mapped displays,
networkin, DIFFERENT types of files, portable to new chips in 5 months (yea
sure!), 65000 characters in each of an unlimited number of fonts, up to 256
processors, supports any kind of memory managment (!!!?), is modular, and
completely uniform from machine to machine! If they (MSI) can do all this than
why does the Ten Commandments have so many "Thou shalt not ..."? The first
two are just pompous, the rest except for number 9, seem to do away with
some standard UN*X utilities as well as some things I do not recognize.
(So maybe I am a little ignorant about sag, xargs, scat, and shmop.)
So if anyone out there has a rational (you be the judge) set of reasons
for these commandments I would LOVE to hear about them.
--
Hal Schloss
(from the Software Lounge at) Pacesetter Systems Inc.
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