14 Mar
2017
14 Mar
'17
9:38 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:43:51AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 7:35 AM, Tim Bradshaw
<tfb(a)tfeb.org> wrote:
As someone who dedicated a bunch of his life to Unix, it pains me to say
it but Linux is better than a lot of the Unix systems from back in the
day. I loved SunOS but I wouldn't trade today's Linux for SunOS and I
don't think there are very many people who would disagree.
It got better than "good enough".
Linux is not Unix, and runs on cheap tin.
I ???believe that
the point you are making is that "white box" PC's running a UNIX-like
system - aka Linux could comes pretty close to doing what the highly touted
AIX, NCR et al were doing and were "good enough" to get the job done.