CSTROM@SIMTEL20.ARPA (08/02/84)
Thanks much for posting that entertaining article about the death of Unix, etc. I am not a very knowledgeable about Unix, so I cannot comment on the author's claims on that subject, but I do take issue with the death of CP/M. I assume he means CP/M-80, and though it is true that software oem's have gone the route of IBM me-tooism and forced obselescence, the eight bit arena is alive and well. Kaypro, CompuPro, Morrow, Macrotech, etc. are doing quite nicely supporting the "dead" operating systems such as CP/M and MP/M-86, and DRI does not seem to be hurting too much. What is even more amusing is that nobody on the ARPAnet has EVER seen S-1 running anywhere as far as I can gather. Whom do they think they are kidding??? At least Unix is a real product, and its developers are not out spending all of their time fishing for venture capital, but rather are working on software development! It seems like someone should blow the whistle on these characters already!
howard@brl-tgr.ARPA (Howard Walter <howard>) (08/13/84)
and then there was the brilliant salesman who realized that loads of free publicity could be had just by posting a UNIX criticism to the net ... Howard ( I like UNIX - why argue with heathens) Walter decvax!brl-bmd!howard