6 May
2002
6 May
'02
6:20 a.m.
That stuff is irrelevant, since *nix was demonstrated to be an insufferable
cost and pain back in '82. Someting that ugly and unfriendly, that tore down
the system each time an application had to be patched, resulting in days of
downtime was just not acceptable. As a result, *nix hasn't gotten much of a
look around here since then, aside from a brief peek at Linux. ... and
neither has SUN hardware.
Dick
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From: "Christopher Smith" <csmith(a)amdocs.com
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 9:41 AM
Subject: RE: APPLEVISION Monitor
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From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com]
I've also got some *nix experience, and,
frankly, anything
that requires I
recompile the OS just to install a driver is too much
trouble. I've done
that, but hopefully never will again.
I thought I would mention here that Unix has had dynamically
loadable kernel modules for a while. I know from experience
that the Unix PC O/S (at least from 3.0) uses them for graphics
stuff.
IRIX has also had them, after a fashion, for a while. (Actually,
IRIX has a "sysgen," but technically it's a re-link, not a re-
compile)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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