stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters) (12/11/87)
In article <3259@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ekrell@hector (Eduardo Krell) writes: >In article <3053@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: > >> That an AT&T employee would rather use a foreign, unsupported >>product than his own company's native, supported, official "one true Unix" >> ... >I disagree with the implication. Both System V and BSD Unix have their >pros and cons. Depending on what you're doing, in some cases you'll be >better off with System V and in other cases you'll prefer BSD (for instance, >research vs development). I see nothing wrong with that. It just says >that neither is perfect. The issue, as I see it, is not which system is better but that AT&T has tried its best to impose on everyone else a "one true UNIX" that it doesn't feel constrained to impose on itself. Maybe if Mr. Krell had to use his own company's product, he just might find a way to convince AT&T to improve it enough so everybody *wanted* to use it. -- Dick St.Peters GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@ge-crd.arpa uunet!steinmetz!stpeters
ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) (12/13/87)
In article <8170@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters) writes: >The issue, as I see it, is not which system is better but that AT&T >has tried its best to impose on everyone else a "one true UNIX" that >it doesn't feel constrained to impose on itself. It's not that dictatorial. Witness the current standarization efforts AT&T is involved in (with Microsoft on Xenix/System V, with Sun on a SPARC standard, POSIX, etc). >Maybe if Mr. Krell had to use his own company's product, he just might >find a way to convince AT&T to improve it enough so everybody *wanted* >to use it. That's exactly what I'm doing. All the kernel work I do is on System V Release 3.x machines. I'm quite satisfied with the changes we've made (otherwise I wouldn't be using it). Whether we can convince the powers to be to include these changes in the official System V distribution is a completely different problem. Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill {ihnp4,seismo,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell