I'm reminded of the remark often attributed to DEC CEO Ken Olson, roughly:
With VMS (their big complex OS) it might take hours searching through manuals to find a feature you need while with Unix you can determine in seconds that it is not available. On October 21, 2014 at 16:10 asulli...@dyn.com (Andrew Sullivan) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:11:55PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: > > But > > for example some of my servers boot in seconds. > > One is reminded of a mail, included in the Preface to _The UNIX-HATERS > Handbook_, available at > http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/preface.html. Apparently, > things really are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. > > Best regards, > > A > > -- > Andrew Sullivan > Dyn, Inc. > asulli...@dyn.com > v: +1 603 663 0448 -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*
