peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (06/07/88)
What I want to know is: Why does everyone have this big need to just merge System V and BSD? A lot of the features that have been added since Version 7 (and even a few features in Version 7) just don't seem to fit well with the rest of UNIX. System V IPC, for example... why a new name-space seperate from the file system? I also can't get over the sneaking feeling that it should be possible to build a general windowing system with realtime support that will run in under a megabyte. After all, I use one every day that does a very good job in half a meg. Yes, I'm talking about the Amiga Exec. It's not up to UNIX standards, but surely protected memory can't cause more than a factor of two size differential? Also: When are AT&T and/or Berkeley going to knuckle down and make all the commands use perror()? It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than "foo.bar: can't open" and it's been around for at least 8 years. Just this one change would do wonders for users' impressions of UNIX as a hostile beast. -- -- Peter da Silva, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. -- Phone: 713-274-5180. Remote UUCP: uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter.