UNIX V7

At 10:03 PM -0700 6/11/09, Josh Dersch wrote: Yeah, rumor has it Linus is hiding out in the forest near here. ;-) At least I think he's still in the area. I sure never thought he'd be living near my home town when I was in Washington DC, and he was in Finland. Mac OS X is my primary OS at home, it and OpenVMS have been for years. I'm not sure yet if OpenVMS is still sharing that distinction. Thanks to the recent actions on the part of HP I've lost the faith, and am questioning my continued support of OpenVMS. I am hoping to find something to renew my faith in OpenVMS, but am thinking of replacing it with a Linux server. :-( Admittedly part of the problem is that my OpenVMS systems have been down since September while we were house hunting, and since we finally got the keys nearly a month ago, I haven't had time to get the system back up. Then last week, I read the news about HP's latest round of cuts. Mac OS X compared to System 7 through Mac OS 9.2 *IS* an abomination. The main advantage I see to it is that it has a UNIX subsystem and X-Windows, so I don't need a separate UNIX workstation (I do like the "finder" replacement). I feel there are issues with the microkernel architecture (and this is based one studies I've read), I feel the GUI is seriously wasteful of resources that could be better spent crunching my data, and I think the GUI is overly flashy. I can't comment on Objective-C or Cocoa as I haven't done any programming on the platform since the Prelude to Rhapsody days, and back then I just barely started to look at Objective-C. These days my preferences are Perl or C# (I really wish C# ran on OpenVMS). Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |