Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > > And that is why UNIX deserves to be thrown in the trash can. It is NOT a > good operating system. It is poorly designed, buggy and baddly documented. > Read the UNIX hater's manual for chapter and verse. Its success had > everything to the fact it was once given away for free and thereby > established a significantly larger user base than other mini operating > systems. As usual, you've opted to forget reality. > Apple did a nice job of copying the Xerox Parc GUI and then hoped a bunch of > ridiculous patents would give it an everlasting monoploy. If the company had > not been immersed in a fog of smug self satisfaction they might have got > Copeland finished in less than ten years. As usual: bullshit. Apple PAID for the Xerox PARC tour by allowing Xerox to get lots of Apple stock. Further, the Alto did not have all the elements of the GUI that you see today. Pull down menus, overlapping windows, drag and drop did not exist. Apple invented them. Learn some history before you attempt to climb on that there soapbox. However, Microsoft didn't pay Xerox. Which one is a "copy" again? > The UNIX vendors appeared to think that the O/S was born in a state of > perfection. The Linux community has done more in two years to develop the > O/S than AT&T, Sun and all the other Unix vendors put together did in > twenty. With this I'll have to agree. But the rest is as usual pure shit. -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net ------------
