preece@uicsl.UUCP (09/29/83)
#R:sri-arpa:-1195700:uicsl:12500012:000:1256 uicsl!preece Sep 28 08:51:00 1983 Hear now, what are you complaining about? Don't you enjoy using a system that is buggy, flaky, and downright unreliable? Doesn't your heart just go pitty-pat at the prospect of digging into the kernel code for the answer to yet another annoying "problem" (read that as Undocumented Feature and/or Restriction)? ---------- I don't know what systems you've been using, but our Vax with Unix is MUCH more reliable than the Dec10 that preceded it. I'm reasonably sure it is up more of the time than the university's Cyber and IBM systems. I was worried about reliability before we replaced our 10 and I've been very pleased with the reliability of the system. I'm grateful for the ability to dig into the kernel when I don't understand why something isn't doing what I expect it to. On the IBM systems I've worked on that kind of knowledge was passed down as folklore from the people who had been there longest. The Cyber I don't even want to talk about. Unix is far from perfect, especially with respect to documentation, but it's far and away the most friendly system I've used and the most understandable. (Well, DTSS was pretty understandable, at least when I was using it, but it was rather limited, too.) scott preece pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece