schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) (05/05/88)
In article <44300@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes: >A non-trivial number of customers are surprised when they find things like >that are not supported. Especially those who also have a "real" BSD system. > >Some of the vendors rationalize it by saying that they are 4.2BSD compatible. >(including all of the 4.2bsd bugs in some cases). Are we still talking about Sun? :-) On one occasion, I noticed that vi couldn't handle fullscreen shelltools with small fonts. It's buffer was too small. Sun tech support told me that they didn't want to make the buffer bigger in order to maintain compatability with Berkeley! Let's not even mention subnetting. -- Scott "desperately seeking 4.0" Schwartz -- Scott Schwartz schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu schwartz@psuvaxg.bitnet